Some places don't just test you. They remember you. When three lifelong friends, and a dog named Scout, travel to North Carolina's Outer Banks for a late-season escape, they expect solitude, salt air, and a few quiet days on the water. What they find instead is a place that watches back. As they move between Ocracoke and Portsmouth Island, the rhythms of tide and weather begin to press in. Old bonds fray. Unspoken tensions surface. And when a king tide and nor'easter collide, every decision carries weight. Separated by the storm, survival becomes more than a fight against the sea, it becomes a reckoning with who they are, what they owe one another, and what the dead still ask of the living. King Tide is an immersive coastal novel set against the raw beauty of the Outer Banks. At once intimate and expansive, it explores friendship under pressure, love tested by nature, and the ghosts that linger in places shaped by loss. Rooted in real geography and inspired by true events, it is a story of endurance, of bodies, of bonds, and of memory—and of the thin veil between the world we see and the one just beyond it. Written by an eighth-generation native of North Carolina's Southern Outer Banks.