The Tide Keeper's Daughter

British Columbia, October 1910. When Dr Zelda Brooks steps off the coastal steamer into the rain-lashed timber outpost of Blackwater Cove, she seeks refuge from a Halifax scandal and a chance to practice medicine on her own unvarnished terms. But before she can unpack her bone saws, a violent Pacific tempest severs the inlet from the outside world-and Arthur Pendleton, the despotic lumber baron who rules the coast with an iron fist, is found dead on the floor of his cliffside fortress.
What appears to be an accidental fall in a study bolted from the inside quickly unravels under Zelda's razor-sharp diagnostic eye. Reading the fractured skull and high-velocity blood spatter like a clinical map, she realizes the magnate was struck down by a calculating hand. Joined by Constable Ian MacRae-a principled, battle-worn lawman with his own past to redeem-Zelda unearths a treacherous labyrinth of tidal sea caves beneath the mansion, where every clue points toward an impossible crime.
As timber interests scramble to frame a convenient culprit, their investigation exposes an empire rotting from within: falsified deaths, stolen wages, and decades of cruel extortion. Trapped between a savage wilderness and a ruthless conspiracy, Zelda must rely on her forensic steel and unyielding moral courage. But as danger mounts and draws her closer to MacRae, pursuing the truth threatens not only their lives but the guarded wall around her heart.