Coming home was supposed to be temporary.

She didn’t expect to find reasons to stay.

Hazel McCleod had a plan. Escape her sleepy home town, build a career in the city and never look back.

Her plan did not include losing her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend in the same week.

Back in Bells Bay, she’s licking her wounds in her childhood bedroom. Except the town she left behind isn’t quite the one she remembers.

She’s also trying very hard not to think about the handsome handyman currently renovating her mother’s rambling old cottage. Hazel has zero interest in falling for a charming small-town guy. She’s got a life to rebuild from scratch and absolutely no time for Sam Parker’s golden retriever energy.

But Bells Bay has other plans. Between an overly enthusiastic mother, best friends who are more like sisters, and a town that’s changed just as much as she has, Hazel starts to wonder if maybe losing everything was the best thing that could have happened to her.

The Tides Turn at Midnight is a warm, feel-good romance about coming home, starting over, and learning that the best plans are the ones you never saw coming.

Perfect for fans of small town romance, forced proximity, golden retriever male main character and found family.

Book One of the Bells Bay series.