High Tide

Elly and Sai come from two different worlds – Elly from welfare and neglect; Sai from privilege and control. When their paths intersect during an attempted suicide, she begins to experience the healing kindness of strangers and he finds a reason to break free from his parents’ weighty expectations. On his way home to Canberra, after completing a short-term placement at Moruya Hospital, Kensai Glassop prevents the young and pregnant Elly Prentice from throwing herself off Matilda Bay breakwater. Five years later, when he returns, Elly is raising her son, Toby, in an old caravan on the outskirts of the small coastal township. While she is determined to give Toby the secure and loving home she didn’t have and to eventually gain independence from the welfare she was raised on, Sai is determined to choose his own future and to re-connect with the girl/woman who touched his heart. When Elly’s ex, Jake Bridges, shows up and her nemesis, Kiley Sharp, tells Toby that Jake is his father, Elly is forced to deal with the past she’d hoped was gone. Meanwhile, Sai’s parents continue to push for control and he finds himself drawn, once again, into their vortex. Can Elly and Sai overcome their differences and these obstacles to build the kind of family they both dream of? —- ISBN: 9798361883448