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Twelve monthly installments · Two choices each month · Five possible endings
A glimpse into your story · Carolina, 1717You are the heroine✦A love story that answers back✦Two choices each month✦Five possible endings
You are not reading about the heroine
You are the woman Jack Rourke cannot forget.
The story unfolds in first person, through your eyes. You wake on the coast of South Carolina with salt in your lungs, a name you cannot prove, and a wanted smuggler standing over you.
Jack doesn’t write to “the reader.” He writes to you, by name, in every letter. Tell us what to call you, and that’s who he’ll remember pulling from the surf.
Each month, you decide how to answer him—and which risks the two of you will take next.
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Your story arrives
Open the next chapter of your first-person adventure, Jack’s sealed letter, and a physical clue or keepsake.
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You choose and reply
Each episode gives you two possible paths. Mark your choice, then send Jack anything else you wish to say in the prepaid return envelope.
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Your ending takes shape
Every returned choice is recorded across all twelve episodes and helps lead your love story to one of five possible endings.
The Tidewater presentation · Season One
A story you can hold
The letter is the event.
Tidewater is designed around the pleasure of waiting for real mail: the weight of the envelope, the broken seal, the marks in the margins, the things that gather in a keepsake box over time.
One monthly story installmentPrinted on tactile archival-style papers
A private letter from JackSealed and addressed to you
A clue or collectibleMaps, sketches, tokens, and evidence
A prepaid reply envelopeChoose one of two paths; every returned choice helps determine your ending
The correspondence takes shape
Made to feel discovered, not manufactured.
These early material studies bring Jack's first letter off the page: weathered paper, flowing ink, and the date and place that begin your private correspondence.
Prototype details · final materials may evolve
Words written only to you
December the 2nd, 1717 · Kitch Island
1717
Season one · The Carolina coast
A wreck. A false name. A man with a price on his head.
Jack says he found you alone in the surf. The Governor’s men say he is a liar, a thief, and worse. Your only certain possession is a compass engraved with a crest no one will explain. The ending has not been chosen; the decisions you send back will decide which version of this love story becomes yours.
Give someone a world to enter
A gift that keeps arriving.
Give her an entire year of mystery, romance, and letters written only for her. She becomes the heroine, makes every decision, and guides her story toward one of five possible endings.
For the attention ofThe woman this story has been waiting forTo be opened in private
One of the First Hundred
The Tidewater Society
Some will discover the letters. You could be here when they first arrive.
Up to 100 Founding Member numbers will ever be issued. Enrollment opens for 30 days, or until all memberships are claimed, whichever comes first. Once it closes, numbers will never be reissued.
Founder enrollment is not yet open. Join the list for your invitation; signing up does not reserve a membership or a number.
Choose your correspondence
The whole story. Two ways to keep it close.
Every Founding Member receives the same complete twelve-month story: sealed letters, physical clues and artifacts, and choices that shape the journey.
The original correspondence
Founding Member
The complete Tidewater Letters experience.
Twelve monthly story boxes, with letters and artifacts
Your choices, returned by post or recorded online
Your private archive of delivered installments
Permanent Founder status and a unique member number
Founder-only correspondence and surprises
A commemorative Founder’s Certificate after completing the season
$14.99 / month + $5.95 shipping per shipment
$229 Season Pass One payment · all twelve shipments included
Founders pay the same price as everyone else. The difference is timing: only the first 100 members receive a Founder number, the certificate, and Founder-only correspondence. Your certificate follows completion of the season.
Write the story. Preserve the journey.
Founder Deluxe
Everything in Founding Member, with the tools of correspondence and a lasting home for your collection.
Your first shipment
The Correspondent’s Writing Set
A feather quill / dip pen, black ink, pen stand, and replacement nibs. Instruments for the replies you’ll send throughout the season.
Months one through twelve
Live the correspondence
Receive your monthly letters and artifacts. Write back to Jack. Let your choices shape what follows.
After completing the season
A permanent collection
A Tidewater Keepsake Chest, your Founder’s Certificate, and the complete branching adventure book—so you can revisit other paths and alternate endings.
$349 Deluxe Season Pass Writing kit and shipping included Save $25.28 vs. twelve monthly payments, including kit and shipping
Monthly: $66.94 at checkout, then $27.94 for the remaining eleven monthly payments. The finale collection follows completion of all twelve paid installments.
A Founder’s Promise
Future readers may discover Tidewater. Founders were here when the first letters arrived.
Your membership number stays yours. Regular subscriptions will continue after Founder enrollment ends; the original Founding Member numbers will not.
The original season
Standard enrollment & gifts
These standard plans do not reserve Founder status. For the upcoming Founder editions, join the invitation list above.
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Monthly
$14.99per month + $5.95 shipping & handling
Begin month by month with all twelve boxed installments planned across the year.
12 monthly boxed installments
Unlocked digital archive
Online or postal replies
Complete experience
Complete Season
$229one payment · shipping included
Save $22.28 vs. monthly
Secure all twelve boxed monthly installments with one payment for the complete season.
12 monthly boxed installments
Unlocked digital archive
Online or postal replies
Made for giving
Gift a Season
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Save $22.28 vs. monthly
Send the full twelve-month boxed experience to someone else, beginning with a gift introduction.
12 monthly boxed installments
Unlocked digital archive
Online or postal replies
A private archive, never a replacement
Your Correspondence
Your response is part of the story. If mailing a reply is not convenient, record the same essential choice online; every decision is kept as your path moves toward one of five endings.
Sample preview of your private archive
From the season03 of 12
The Water Between
Your story and Jack’s letter, kept together after delivery.
Questions before the tide turns
Am I the main character?
Yes. The story is written in first person, through your perspective. You are the woman Jack writes to, the heroine making the decisions, and one half of the love story.
Do my choices really change the ending?
Yes. Every episode presents two story-directing choices. Your responses are recorded across all twelve installments and lead your story toward one of five possible endings.
Is this mostly digital?
No. The physical mail is the heart of Tidewater. Your online archive only follows the installments already delivered and gives you a convenient way to respond.
Do all twelve installments arrive at once with a season pass?
No. The waiting is part of the experience. Every plan delivers one installment per month for twelve months.
Can I give Tidewater as a gift?
Gift enrollment will open with the public launch. The prepaid season is designed to feel as though the recipient has been unexpectedly drawn into the world.
Can I write a real letter back?
Yes. Reply materials are part of the intended physical experience. The online response is an optional convenience.
