"After an unsuccessful baseball career, David Greene returns to Cape Cod, where he is befriended by Judith Silver, a beautiful lawyer, and her prominent husband, Gordon Stone. Drawn into a passionate affair with Judith while she and Gordon groom him for political office, David soon finds himself attracted to a single mother who desperately needs him."@en
"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. ... From the Trade Paperback edition."
"A tale of small-town political and sexual intrigue. The hero is David Greene, a baseball player returning to his hometown in Cape Cod after a mediocre career and a failed marriage. He embarks on two affairs at once and runs for selectman."
"A tale of small-town political and sexual intrigue. The hero is David Greene, a baseball player returning to his hometown in Cape Cod after a mediocre career and a failed marriage. He embarks on two affairs at once and runs for selectman."@en

Storm tide