RACHEL RUECKERT is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher based in Boston. On a visit to Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 2015, she learned about the true events behind her debut novel, If the Tide Turns, and vowed to write the tale. If the Tide Turns is a true forbidden love story set 300 years ago in Cape Cod and the Caribbean (think The Scarlet Letter meets the Golden Age of Pirates). Rachel holds an MFA from Columbia University and an M.Ed from Boston University. She is also the author of East Winds, a memoir showing her external and internal journeys to wrestle with what marriage means while backpacking through South America, Asia, and Europe as a newlywed.
1715, Eastham, Massachusetts: As the daughter of a wealthy family, Maria has a secure future mapped out for her, yet it is not the future she wants. Young, headstrong, and restless, she has no desire to marry the aging, mean-spirited John Hallett, regardless of his fortune and her parents’ wishes.
Samuel Bellamy, an orphaned sailor searching for work, meets Maria by chance, enthralling her with talk of far-flung places and blasphemous ideals. But neither is free from the social order into which they were born. When Sam is banished from Maria’s parents’ home after asking for her hand, he vows to return a wealthy man, and Maria promises to keep the faith until then.
Sam is drawn into piracy and discovers a brotherhood more equal and fulfilling than any on land, despite its dangers. Beguiled by the chance to both fight for justice and make a fortune to bring home to Maria, Sam is torn between duty to his crew and his desire to return. Separated by more than just the ocean, time slips by as Sam and Maria cling to their love for each other. Maria is determined to stay strong in her conviction in Sam, but as rumors swirl and her position in Eastham turns perilous, Maria is forced into an impossible decision...
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