This image is the cover for the book What The Tide Brings Back

What The Tide Brings Back

Jesse is drawn to the sea off Brighton Beach. Having newly joined a local sea swimming club he has at last found a way to clear his head from the nightmares that have terrorised him since birth. But what Jesse doesn’t see, what lies beneath him as he swims around the Brighton Palace Pier each morning, is a mystery from the past that will once again come to the surface with deadly consequences. Lilly Baker dies during a terrible storm that ravaged the old Brighton Chain Pier and sent it crashing into a raging sea. But Lilly’s need for revenge was too strong to die with her and has haunted the Brighton Sea Swimming Club for nearly two hundred years. Lilly won’t rest until everyone pays the ultimate price for her loss. Jesse can’t rest until the terrible nightmares stop haunting him.

Rob Starr

Rob has co-written two full-length musicals and written two plays, all of which have been staged. Rob wrote a book about his English Channel swim in 2012 called, From Starr to Starrfish which was published in 2013. Rob lives in Brighton with his wife Sharon and their three children, Asher, Mia and Jesse. Rob’s passion is open water swimming and he swims every morning at 6:30 a.m. throughout the year from the Palace Pier in Brighton. This is Rob’s first novel.

Austin Macauley Publishers