Lavender Tide

Brooklyn tries to ignore the pull of the Kindred Spirit mailbox, but can't dismiss the desire to know more about its visitor.When Brooklyn Marshall returns to her renovated oceanfront cottage at Sunset Beach, North Carolina, her peace is upended by a menacing nor'easter and the intrusion of her painful past. After she bikes to the Kindred Spirit mailbox and fails to return, Logan Corbett, a well-respected real estate agent, is questioned about her disappearance.Sixty years earlier, polio victim Trish Malone's fifteenth birthday swiftly turns from celebration to mourning. While paying her respects at Southport's historic cemetery, she encounters schoolmate Billy Ray Jessup, and her visit takes a troubling turn. He not only scoffs at her belief in an afterlife but mocks a God who would make her "have that crippled leg." Can a relationship birthed in pain grow into a friendship that endures the hardship and suffering of the Vietnam War and its heartbreaking aftermath?Two women from different generations, each burdened by griefs and insecurities, experience the guiding hand of God and the wonder of the Kindred Spirit mailbox that bridges the gap between them.