Sarah Crouch is known for her accolades in the world of athletics as a professional marathon runner. She has had freelance work featured in Active Magazine, Competitor Magazine, and many other titles. Middletide is her debut novel. 

"When Dr. Erin Landry's lifeless body is found hanging from a tree on Elijah Leith's property, it initially appears to be an obvious suicide. But on closer inspection, there are clues that maybe foul play was involved in the beautiful town doctor's death. Sheriff Jim Godbout's investigation is going to disturb the peace of the quiet Puget Sound town of Point Orchard and especially that of prodigal son Elijah. Out of money and motivation, thirty-three-year-old Elijah returns to his empty childhood home to lick the wounds of his failed writing career. Hungry for purpose, he throws himself into restoring the ramshackle cabin his father left behind and rekindling his relationship with Nakita. Now a widow, she used to be the extraordinary girl whose love he betrayed, but whom he was never able to forget. But, his life is turned upside down when the case of Dr. Erin Landry's death is discovered to be ripped straight from the pages of his book. As the people of Point Orchard turn against him, Elijajh must fight for his innocence against an unexpected foe who is close and cunning enough to flawlessly frame him for murder"--