Rip Tide A Novel
Rip Tide by Colleen McKeegan is a novel published by HarperCollins Publishers on August 19, 2025, featuring 272 pages in English. This narrative explores the complex dynamics between two sisters, Kimmy and Erin Devine, as they return to their childhood home in Rocky Cape, a South Jersey beach town. The story delves into their shared past, marked by trauma and unresolved issues, as they confront the emotional weight of their history when a body washes ashore, triggering long-buried secrets.
Readers will find a fast-paced tale that intertwines family relationships, nostalgia, and suspense, as Kimmy grapples with her decision to leave a high-powered job in London and Erin faces personal struggles amid their parents’ expectations. The novel unfolds in dual timelines, revealing the sisters’ journey through youthful delusions and the repercussions of their past choices. Rip Tide presents themes of forgiveness, second chances, and the complexities of love and friendship, inviting readers to reflect on the dangerous decisions made in the name of desire.
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An ELLE Favorite Book of 2024!
“Fireworks explode down the shore in Rip Tide, Colleen McKeegan’s absorbing novel. At once an insightful look at tangled family dynamics and a wrenching story of youthful delusion, Rip Tide illustrates that for many women, the past is a ticking time bomb. The deeper we bury it, the bigger the boom. Spread out a blanket, crack open Rip Tide and prepare to be dazzled.”–Jillian Medoff, author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful
From the author of The Wild One, a heartfelt and suspenseful novel about two sisters returning to their childhood beachfront home who are forced to confront their traumatic past when a body washes ashore.
It’s been fifteen years since Kimmy Devine promised herself she’d never move back to Rocky Cape, the idyllic South Jersey beach town where she grew up. She doesn’t want to relive the crushing heartbreak and scandal that ravaged her world as a teen. Her younger sister Erin shares those feelings, the wounds she caused so many years ago forever binding her and Kimmy.
Yet here they are, back in their hometown: Kimmy, floundering after quitting her high-powered finance job in London to help her dad run the family’s hardware stores; Erin, reeling from fertility issues and an ongoing divorce, begging to be taken seriously by her parents. The more time they spend in Rocky Cape, the stronger the pull of nostalgia, and both Erin and Kimmy slip on the past like a pair of last year’s sandals, forgetting about the blisters when worn too long.
As the sisters celebrate their homecoming at their parents’ yacht club, a handful of familiar faces arrive to dampen the revelry. The next morning, a body is found floating nearby and long-buried secrets from their adolescence begin to emerge. Someone from the sisters’ past, it seems, is out for revenge.
Told in fast-paced, dual timelines, Rip Tide is a steamy, tension-filled tale of suspense about family, friendships broken and repaired, young love lost and rekindled, forgiveness and second chances, taking control of your life, and the dangerous decisions we make when blinded by desire.
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