Title: Turning Back the Tide
Author: Valerie Wilde
Date: 2019
Quote: "It did say on the online form that the cabin is split into two residences."
So Jules, who is mourning the death of her twin sister, meets Aidan, who is mourning the deaths of too many of his patients, sharing the beach house of Jules' childhood.
What's not to like? This is the sort of "book" only the Internet could generate. It's a short story. At a believable pace, Wilde shows us Jules and Aidan meeting. They like each other. They don't even get to that critical milestone of two introverts' romance, where the couple admit to each other that they enjoy being quiet together.
If you're looking for a long but clean romance and you've already read Jane Eyre, Gone with the Wind, and Jubilee, I commend to you Shirley, Charlotte Bronte's other full-length romance. Shirley is well off and free to be even more ambitiously wholesome than Jane Eyre. She even talk about the conditions of the working people! Heady stuff for the early nineteenth century! I thought Shirley would be sententious but soon found myself loving it.
If you're looking for a short sweet story, you might like Turning Back the Tide. Most of the story remains to be told. That's all right. You know how it goes.
I did find it a bit unsettling that Wilde packaged this story together with the trailer for an unrelated Kindle Unlimited novel in which a different male lead, a banker not a doctor, is also called Aidan. It's one thing to start one romance without carrying the one before it through to happily-ever-after, and another thing to use the same name for both guys. I suppose the author known as Valerie Wilde had someone on her mind.
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