Title Page

RISING

TIDES

NORA ROBERTS

Copyright

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are either the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or
locales is entirely coincidental.

RISING TIDES

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All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1998 by Nora Roberts.
Excerpt from Inner Harbor copyright © 1999 by Nora Roberts.
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Contents

Prologue

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Appendix : Inner Harbor

Dear Reader

DEAR READER,

The heart and soul of the Maryland Eastern Shore are its watermen, the men who make their livings on the Chesapeake Bay and its channels.They face hardships, storms, short seasons.Day after day, year after year, they ply the waters—setting their crab pots, dredging for oysters, and are privy to a world many of us will never know.Seeing the red dawn break over dark water, watching a storm roll in slow and black from the east.In their rubber boots and thick gloves they pilot their workboats through frigid dawns or sweltering afternoons searching for the blue crab the area is famous for.

Ethan Quinn is a waterman.He wasn’t born to the tradition, but has embraced it.He’s a quiet man whose heart runs as deep as the waters he loves.In Rising Tides he’ll face more than the challenge of making his living on the Bay or struggling to make the .edgling boatbuilding business he and his brothers began a success.

There’s a young boy who needs him, and a woman and child he loves but never believed he could have. To shape his life around them, Ethan must face his own dark past, accept not only who he is but what he hopes to become.

Turn to the back of this book for a special SNEAK
PREVIEW of the next book in Nora Roberts’s
Quinn Brothers Trilogy . . .

INNER HARBOR

Available in paperback from Jove Books

DON’T MISS NORA ROBERTS’S STUNNING
DREAM TRILOGY . . .

Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up as sisters amid the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. Though they came from different backgrounds, they were united by friendship, loyalty, family—and dreams . . .

DARING TO DREAM