Time and Tide Before the

Before the Tide Before the vows, before the family, before the dream of distant shores - there was scandal, struggle, and a love that refused to break. In a Yorkshire village where whispers carry further than the wind, Marco Duarte and Elena's love story begins in fire and defiance. Through hardship and gossip, through coal-stained winters and summers filled with laughter, they build a life beam by beam, child by child, always clinging to the promise that what they share is worth everything. As years pass, their passion deepens, their family grows, and the vow they share - always and forever - is tested again and again. Illness, toil, and the weight of expectation threaten to dim their flame, yet Marco's devotion burns brighter with every storm. And when the dream of one day begins to fade from Elena's lips, Marco makes a reckless, impossible promise: to give her the world, whatever the cost. Before the Tide is the sweeping, passionate prequel to Eternal Tide - the story of a love that scandal could not silence, hardship could not break, and time itself could not diminish. A love strong enough to sail beyond the horizon.