The Time Between Tides

What if the life you’ve always longed for wasn’t a dream—but a life you somehow left behind?At forty-five, Etta James has built a quiet, comfortable life beside the harbor. She has a loving husband, a peaceful home, and every reason to be content. Yet beneath it all is an ache she has never been able to explain—a haunting sense that she belongs somewhere else.Her dreams are filled with another era: glittering ballrooms, gaslit streets, elegant homes, and a mysterious man whose face she can never quite see. Then there is the wardrobe hidden among the pines—an impossible object that seems to hum with a secret meant only for her.For years, Etta has resisted the pull.Until a stranger knocks on her door.What follows will challenge everything she believes about time, identity, love, and the life she was meant to live. When Etta discovers that she may have been displaced from another timeline, she is given an extraordinary possibility: the chance to return to where she truly belongs.But crossing the boundaries of time comes with a price—and finding the life you were meant to live may mean leaving behind the life you already love.The Time Between Tides is an atmospheric, emotional journey through time, longing, second chances, and the mysterious paths that lead us back to ourselves. Blending historical intrigue, speculative fiction, romance, and the wonder of the Gilded Age, it asks one unforgettable question:If you were given the chance to step into the life you were always meant to live… would you take it?