A Season of Tides

Set along the shores of East Bay near Pensacola, Florida A Season of Tides describes the climb from poverty to greatness to a final realization of all the hopes and dreams of three teenagers. Wade, whose efforts to survive by pulling crabs from the bay, finds Alexis watching him on a dawn-lit beach one morning. It is the beginning of a long and dangerous struggle upwards at great cost to Wade. He and Alexis work together their first summer to form a business selling crabs to the...
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Set along the shores of East Bay near Pensacola, Florida A Season of Tides describes the climb from poverty to greatness to a final realization of all the hopes and dreams of three teenagers. Wade, whose efforts to survive by pulling crabs from the bay, finds Alexis watching him on a dawn-lit beach one morning. It is the beginning of a long and dangerous struggle upwards at great cost to Wade. He and Alexis work together their first summer to form a business selling crabs to the markets in Pensacola. Alexis, who is driven to escape her unhappy life, drives Wade to try new ways of crabbing. Alexis, slender and blonde, with gray eyes that match the early morning waters of the bay, is almost a year older than Wade. And Wade is smitten. But Alexis is all business. Then pudgy Carla who sits with them at the lunch table in school invites them both to a party her brother is throwing at her parents' house. That party precipitates events that change all of their lives. Carla is smart. Her father is a prominent lawyer. Her mother well educated. And as Wade and Alexis become acquainted with Carla's father, her father is reminded of how the hard times he had as the son of a roofer built the character he needed to succeed. He arranges for his out-of-shape, somewhat lazy daughter to work for Wade and Alexis crabbing the next summer. And Carla surprises them all. She learns to bait the traps, sail the little wooden skiff to work the trap lines and soon has ideas for making the business far more efficient and less labor intensive. To her father's utter astonishment she is soon working with Wade and Alexis from dawn to well into the night. But there is more afoot than meets her father's eye.