A Dark and Rising Tide

By: Debra Castaneda

Narrated by: Jesse Ganteaume

When a massive storm surge hits the central coast of California, the ferocious surf destroys buildings, floods streets, and washes up something sinister from the depths of the Monterey Bay.

Peter, a retired state lifeguard, knows the water better than anyone. Carla, owner of a beach-side restaurant, is still mourning the loss of her son in a boating accident. While both love their quaint small town with spectacular views, their personal lives are as complicated as the changing weather forecasts.

After a mysterious creature in the water kills two men, Peter and Carla are plunged into a living nightmare as a massive tidal surge traps them and their friends in a battered, unstable building.

While the storm rages through the night, they discover something horrifying swims between them and escape, just waiting to attack anyone within reach.

They need to make life or death decisions to survive.

But first, they need to make it to morning.

Inspired by real events, A Dark and Rising Tide is part of Debra Castaneda’s Dark Earth Rising series of standalone novels. Listen to the books in any order.

©2023 Debra Castaneda (P)2024 Debra Castaneda

Fun dark and creative

The creatures are very creative and interesting. The people seem like they could be real and hard not to want to survive. Not the creepiest or scariest but a great creature story.

one of my new favorites

By far one of my new favorite books. the pacing was perfect and the ending blew my mind. I can't recommend this book enough.

Innsmouth without being scary

Unfortunately, the majorly factor of this silly plot is that several survivors of a supernatural sea storm on a small sea side town can’t figure out how to climb down off a 2nd story roof for days on end.

Yet, they have time to slowly work through pages of overly emotional melodrama to discuss their feelings about how to save everyone from the most insipid lovecraftian sea monster attack ever written .

Wow!! We're impressed!

What a unique storyline! Hubby and I listened to this together, and we both really enjoyed it. A "disaster" theme with creepy sea creatures trapping you in your home - what more could you want? We appreciated that we could feel the suspense and emotions, picture the horror and could grasp what was happening like we were watching a suspenseful thriller.

We also liked that the characters were such unique individuals. Each had a story of their own, and it was nice to read just enough personal details about each one without losing track of what the story is about. It was the same throughout the book - enough well-worded details regarding the beach location, the close-knit community, the catastrophic storm, and the horrific creatures so that it felt like you were there; however, not so many details that you grew bored and wanted to skip ahead to get to the good parts! (In other words, no rambling like I currently am.)

I'll just end with being glad that we stumbled across this great book. It was hard to stop listening, and we plan to check out the other books by this great author!!

Great grief and found family horror tale

I loved how this story explored grief and found family. I just wanted more creature time!!