Into the Tide: A Cottonwood Cove Series Special Edition Paperback

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She's my best friend's little sister. Completely off-limits. But every man has his breaking point.


Lila James is my best friend's little sister and I've always looked out for her.

She's five years younger than me, and when she left for college, she was just a kid.

But now she's home for the summer-and she's definitely not a kid anymore.

She's beautiful and smart and everything I didn't know I needed.

Dark eyes. Long wavy hair. And legs that are meant to be wrapped around me.

I'm the guy who likes to have a good time.

Keep things light.

When her brother asks me to hire her at my restaurant, it's a no-brainer.

There isn't anything I wouldn't do for her.

Until she asks me for one more favor.

She wants me to be her first.

Take her V-card.

Go where no man has gone before.

Her words, not mine.

And damn if I don't want to go there more than I've ever wanted anything.

She's only here for the summer, and she says it will be our secret.

It's temporary.

We'll go back to being just friends at the end of summer.

She promises that she won't fall for me.

She knows better.

But Lila isn't the one I'm worried about.


**This is book 1 in the Cottonwood Cove Series. Each one can be read as a complete standalone. A HEA is guaranteed!**


Cottonwood Cove Series:

Into the Tide

Under the Stars

On the Shore

Before the Sunset

After the Storm

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356 pages

Average rating: 7.48

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jenlynerickson
Sep 24, 2025
10/10 stars
“I’d been home for two days, and my dad seemed happy to have me here. I had a job and a sexy-as-sin boss. Obviously, nothing could ever happen with him. It was Hugh Reynolds, for God’s sake. But that didn’t mean I wouldn’t enjoy spending my working hours with him. Things were looking up in Cottonwood Cove.” “Like girls gone wild on spring break in Miami Beach, this is summer break in Cottonwood Cove, Lila-style…Lila is—she’s amazing. She’s gorgeous and smart and kind. She’s driven and determined and loyal. I mean, what…isn’t there to love about her?...She had to be the sexiest virgin on the planet.” She lights up every room she enters. Lila’s everyone’s type. Nicknamed for her resemblance to her favorite Disney character Snow White, Lila decides to create a “Snow Day” bucket list for her summer in Cottonwood Cove. “#13. Tell Hugh Reynolds that I love him. Not a friendship kind of love. That I-can’t-live-without-you, people-write-poetry-about kind of love. The real deal…I never knew what I was waiting for until that night out at the cove. And that’s when it hit me…I think I’ve been waiting for you.” “One thing that I’d learned from being home this past summer and spending all that time with Hugh, crossing things off my list that were important to me, is that life is what you make it…That’s the thing about life—there really aren’t any rules aside from trying to be a good human…Everyone is allowed to find their own path…Sometimes, you just go through things. You lose people you love, and you experience hard times, but it’s what you do with that that counts. You can either stay down, or you can get up and fight.” “Catch your breath. Enjoy the little things. That was what [this book] was about. Going for a run. Going to the cove to hang out with friends. Baking cookies in the middle of the afternoon because you had time to do it. And going to a family dinner.” Into the Tide is a reminder not to “take these kinds of days for granted because they wouldn’t last long.” “Bored out of your mind? Exhausted from having to hold the conversation? Desperate to get away? Ready for a change?” Laura Pavlov’s Into the Tide is a swoon-worthy romantic escape!

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