LGBTQ+
Some loves arrive slowly. Some take decades to say.
Book 1 in the Ebb Tide Series
Set against the heat and beauty of the Gulf Coast in the shadow of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Still Waters is a novel about desire and concealment. And the courage it takes to say the true thing to the right person, and about what a man discovers when he finally stops finding reasons not to.
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Common Ground
LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction · Standalone
In 1995, two men from the same fraternity, at different schools, meet at a symposium, and something shifts. Thirty years later, Marsh is telling the story of the farm, the deed, the weather report that stood in for I love you, and the county that called them brothers.
About the Author
Cade Morrow
Cade Morrow writes Southern literary fiction about men navigating love, identity, and the long shadow of lives kept quiet. His novels move from Mobile Bay and the Tensaw Delta to the Natchez bluffs and coastal Georgia, and his Ebb Tide trilogy follows two military officers across twenty years of a relationship the country would not name.
The First Lines
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Still Waters · Ebb Tide Trilogy, Book One
LGBTQ+ historical fiction · Gulf Coast
A career officer keeps house, keeps quiet, and keeps a man he can never name in daylight, through the long years when saying so could cost everything.
From the opening:
- The house smells like someone else's good intentions: lemon Pledge, the ghost of burnt toast from this morning, and underneath it all, the salt-iron pull of Gulf air that never fully leaves old wood. I've been up since six. It's how I show love when I can't say it any other way. Fresh sheets. A swept porch. The mason jar on the table crammed with stargazer lilies, their smell almost obscene in a small room, because Clair always noticed flowers and I always noticed her noticing.
Common Ground · a novel
LGBTQ+ fiction · Standalone
Thirty years after a folding table and a borrowed jacket, one man finally sets down the whole account of the farm they built, the deed they signed, and the county that called them brothers.
From the opening:
- I was twenty-one years old. I had a catcher's knees and a B in organic chemistry and no idea that the rest of my life was about to get out of a Jeep Grand Wagoneer in front of the house and walk in wearing a borrowed jacket.
Someday · a novel
LGBTQ+ fiction · Standalone
A man tells the story of the boy he loved first and the life he built after, and only late does he let himself say which one he actually got to keep.
From the opening:
- I was down on the mud hunting flat rocks for him to beat me with. He hit eight and turned around to be sure I had seen it. I had. I always had. I kept a standing account of the things Austal did that nobody was there to witness but me, and I felt the grin he gave me arrive somewhere under my breastbone and set up there for the day.
The Ebb Tide Series
· Three novels. Twenty years. One question the era would not let them answer out loud.
The Ebb Tide series follows Troy Hammersmith, a career military-intelligence officer on Florida's Gulf Coast Panhandle, across twenty years of concealment, love, and institutional change. It is the story of a life built inside a silence the era required, and of what happens to that life when the silence loses its legal force.
Read in order. The arc is cumulative.
Still Waters | Book One
A military intelligence officer on Florida’s Gulf Coast Panhandle has spent thirty-two years learning to carry things in silence. Then a Coast Guard officer boards a boat and something shifts. A novel about desire, concealment, and the courage it takes to say the true thing to the right person.
Landfall | Book Two
Troy Hammersmith has learned to hold the shape of his life. Then Casey comes back. The second novel in the Ebb Tide series: a story about return, reckoning, and the weight of a life built between two people who have never said the thing out loud.
Slack Water | Book Three
The final novel the Ebb Tide series opens in the summer of 2009 and closes in the fall of 2011, in the weeks after DADT is repealed. It is a novel about what men do with a freedom they spent two decades learning to live without, and whether the habits of concealment dissolve with the law that required them, or stay.
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