Storm Tide

A minor league baseball player who returns to his small hometown on Cape Cod makes a bid for political office, finds himself torn between two women, and witnesses a horrible tragedy

Landing back in Cape Cod after his marriage and his short-lived basketball career end, David Greene wanders into affairs with a married woman and an emotionally distraught single mother. Reprint.

After his dreams of playing baseball in the Majors fall short and his marriage ends, David Greene returns to his small hometown on Cape Cod. There he meets the eminent professor, Gordon Stone, and his beautiful wife, Judith Silver, with whom he soon falls into a passionate affair. Into this explosive mix, a young woman appears--a single mother at the end of her emotional rope. Crystal desperately needs David. Yet caught between two women, David bears witness to a heartbreaking turn of events that seems as inevitable as the push and pull of ocean waves. . . .