Kat Groshong is an award‑winning writer and an award‑winning graphic designer who has spent over three decades writing things people actually read—from corporate content to historic blogs to eBooks on such sexy topics as counterfeit goods, workplace violence prevention, and natural disaster prep and response (it's true). In 2018, she finally wrote the book she’d been carrying around for years: Everyday Ordinary: [Mostly] True Confessions of Marriage, Shoe Shopping, and How I Keep Losing the Mother of the Year Award. Today, Kat writes industry content by day and fiction by night, building the Haldon Series—a place she swears is real, even if Google Maps disagrees. She lives in an old white house in Michigan with her family and three cats who supervise her writing schedule and demand treats.

New to Haldon? Your first trip is free.

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KAT GROSHONG

Writer. Storyteller. Once turned her husband's hair orange.

(It was a mistake. It grew out.)

THE DAY THE TIDES TURNED

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Every April, the tides turn in Haldon, Oregon, and every spring, the town pretends it’s totally prepared. It is not. Lost things wash ashore. Secrets surface.

The Day the Tides Turn is a novel in stories about community, reinvention, and the human habit of insisting everything is fine until the ocean says otherwise.

A NOVEL IN STORIES | COMING OCTOBER 2026

This book is fantastic. It is incredibly soulful.





This whole book is beautifully, masterfully done. Thought provoking. Touching and relatable.





The Day The Tides Turned is captivating. It kept me reading.





WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

MORE IN THE HALDON SERIES

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START HERE.

Before the tide turned, Haldon ran out of coffee. Winter Storm Jasper knocks out the power, blocks the highway, the supply chain collapses, and suddenly Haldon is without its favorite beverage.

It’s a warm, funny intro to the Haldon universe—a quirky coastal town where rumors move faster than weather, neighbors show up loudly, and even the small disasters have undertow.

Grab the free story.



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COMING DEC 2026

How fast can a life be ruined? In Haldon, Oregon, it only takes a single tide. Isaac Elliot thought he’d finally found peace in the surf and the scriptures. But after a misunderstanding in the campus quad goes viral and when his girlfriend goes missing, he becomes the most hated man in town.



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COMING JAN 2027

Twelve years on the road. And suddenly Bede McInnis is out of excuses for avoiding home.

You met Bede at North Point. Now see how he got there—through the long miles, the bad weather, and two very unwelcome traveling companions.

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COMING APRIL 2027

It was a perfectly normal Tuesday in Haldon, Oregon. Well, except for the blackmail. And drinking reserve Pinot Noir out of a travel mug (it has notes of mocha, don’t ask). And then the tides turned on Wednesday, April 17.