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As rain drives her toward an oyster farm workplace, she notices the town’s rustic charm, the unfamiliar smell of brine and fish, and the warm, grandmother-like atmosphere of the “Gold’s Oysters” facility. The chapter sets emotional tension, self-doubt, and resolve for a transformative relationship with place and people.","WHEN THE TIDES SHIFT  \nGARNET SHORES  \nOCEANOFPDF. COM  \nCopyright © 2026 by Megan Monte All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.  \nThis book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author ’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.  \nCover by Megan Jayne Designs  \nISBN (paperback): 979-8-9933107-2-5  \nISBN (ebook): 979-8-9933107-1-8  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nContent Warnings  \n1. Eliza  \n2. Grayson  \n3. Eliza  \n4. Grayson  \n5. Eliza  \n6. Grayson  \n7. Eliza  \n8. Grayson  \n9. Eliza  \n10. Eliza  \n11. Eliza  \n12. Grayson  \n13. Eliza  \n14. Grayson  \n15. Eliza  \n16. Grayson  \n17. Eliza  \n18. Grayson  \n19. Eliza  \n20. Eliza  \n21. Grayson  \n22. Eliza  \n23. Grayson  \n24. Eliza  \n25. Grayson  \n26. Eliza  \n27. Grayson  \n28. Eliza  \n29. Grayson  \n30. Eliza  \n31. Eliza  \n32. Grayson  \n33. Eliza  \n34. Eliza  \n35. Grayson  \n36. Eliza  \n37. Eliza  \nEpilogue  \nDear Reader  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Mrs. Dyl,  \nFor nurturing my dream of becoming an author, even when I was no longer  \nyour student.  \nMaybe one day I’ll revisit that first high school manuscript—I still have the original printout with your hand-written feedback.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor content warnings, please visit [www.AuthorMeganMonte.com](www.AuthorMeganMonte.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nELIZA  \nI’VE NEVER BEEN one to believe in signs.  \nRainbows? Just pretty colors painted across the sky. Ladybugs? They only land on you because they’re exhausted from flapping their wings a gazillion beats per second. Finding a face-up penny means you’re one cent richer and zero-point-zero-two percent closer to buying a latte at an overpriced downtown café .  \nGood fortune doesn’t come from exhausted beetles or wallets with holes in them. It comes from hard work and strategic decisions.  \nSo the fact that the downpour obscuring my car windows and flooding the gravel lot seems like a promising sign shows just how low I’ve stooped. I’m so desperate for something good that my brain actually thinks the rain could be signaling a new beginning, washing away all the bullshit from the last two weeks that landed me in the nowhere-nothing coastal town of Garnet Shores.  \nAlright, maybe that isn’t a fair description. Garnet Shores, Rhode Island, is on maps. But the weather-beaten institution in front of my windshield is one of the only reasons it’s there.  \nCompared to Boston, it’s as exciting as a desert—the kind without stunning canyons and fun cacti that look like they’re waving hello. Maybe that’s unfair, too, but I grew up in a town as confining as it was uninspiring, and this one is even smaller.  \nIt’s not that this town is ugly. Garnet Shores is actually rather cute, with its quiet rural homes, sliver of coastline, farm stands, and stretches of trees. It’s quintessential coastal New England, without the preppy flair, lively atmosphere, or tourist energy I’ve experienced out on Cape Cod. This is a place where you come to read a book on a quiet porch, migrate to the beach to continue reading said book, and—when you simply cannot digest another page—grab a drink at the sole bar that caters to all five square miles of this town.  \nIt isn’t a place to make six figures, get promoted to Marketing VP, or network with entrepreneurs at happy hour.  \nYeah, because all those things worked out so well for you. Just like that, my chest tightens all over again.  \nI jerk my door open and shove myself into the rain. 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