Tidal Creek Hearts Series

Faith, healing, and love along the Sea Islands—Tidal Creek Hearts follows Summer Raines as she rebuilds her life, her calling, and her heart.

Contemporary Christian romance stories inspired by Carolina's serene shores.

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Just as Summer begins to imagine a future shaped by faith and honesty, Brad Hope, a love from her past returns. Confronted with who she once was and who she has become, Summer must choose between Brad and Caleb, a choice between becoming the woman she is now or returning to the woman she once was.

A Partnership with Promise

Shattered by a broken engagement, wrongly accused of embezzlement, and spiritually adrift, Summer Raines retreats to the Sea Islands of her youth. In the quiet rhythms of Oyster Point, she begins to rebuild her faith and rediscover who she is apart from achievement and appearance. A new role fundraising for a free medical clinic—and a thoughtful colleague she insists on seeing only as a professional—hint at possibilities she isn’t ready to name. Healing comes first. Love can wait.

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Engaged and united by faith, Summer and her fiance' believe the hardest seasons are behind them. When life tests their commitment in unforeseen ways, they must learn whether love rooted in faith can endure uncertainty, sacrifice, and truth.

Return to Oyster Point in A Partnership with Promise, the second installment of the Tidal Creek Hearts series. A story of second chances.

Summer Raines teams up with Dr. Caleb Gervais to launch a capital campaign that will give the Oyster Point Free Medical Clinic a brand‑new home. To pull it off, she must lean on two unlikely allies: her estranged mother, Maggie—someone she’d rather avoid—and her former fiancé, Brad Hope, whose help may prove essential.

As the campaign swells, Summer’s renewed faith steadies her, and a deepening bond with Caleb blossoms amid the challenges.

Join Summer and Caleb where stately white egrets glide through spartina grass, the salty breeze lifts your hair, and the tides keep their promise. Discover Oyster Point anew in A Partnership with Promise.

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Gallery Moments

Scenes capturing coastal romance and Sea Island charm

A weathered wooden dock stretching into calm seafoam-green waters under soft morning light
A weathered wooden dock stretching into calm seafoam-green waters under soft morning light
Sunlight filtering through Spanish moss draping ancient live oaks on a sea island path
Sunlight filtering through Spanish moss draping ancient live oaks on a sea island path
A couple walking hand-in-hand along a curved shoreline with deep navy twilight sky above
A couple walking hand-in-hand along a curved shoreline with deep navy twilight sky above
Close-up of a vintage journal and pen resting on a seafoam mist colored blanket on the beach
Close-up of a vintage journal and pen resting on a seafoam mist colored blanket on the beach
A softly lit cover of a Christian romance novel set on a serene Sea Islands beach at sunset, with gentle waves curling onto the shore.