title: Rising Tides (Chesapeake Bay Saga)
author:  Nora Roberts 
description: Americas favorite writer.<i>The New Yorker </i><br /><br />A warm, satisfying romance with a dash of mystery that will keep readers engrossed.<i>Library Journal</i>
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  For Felix
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PROLOGUE
  
  
  ### OCTOBER 1537
  
  
  Off the coast of Suffolk, a three-masted ship of some eighty tons cuts the
  waves of a heavy sea as she approaches the coast. The land is home, the far
  distant lights and fires of the little town just in sight. But the stiff wind,
  very nearly a gale despite the bright sunrise astern, is easterly, turning the
  familiar, beloved coastline into a lee shore, the dread of all mariners. The
  ship’s helmsman, though, is determined to bring his hull home, on the flood
  tide, despite the huge risk he is taking.
  
  
  The helmsman is a pale, skinny youth of middling height. His hair, unruly at
  the best of times, flies in the wind like a ragged reed-bed. By rights, his
  hands should not be on the whipstaff at all