WHAT THE RIVER KEPT: A Christian Inspirational Romance with Danger and Secrets (Broken Ground) - Softcover

Merrick, Daisy; ., MaroonVale

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798172715280

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The water took her diner. The ground gave back a body.

Nora Keene buried a husband young and built her whole life back around a chrome-edged counter, a six-year-old girl, and a plan for everything. Then the Laurel River came up over its banks in the night and took the low streets, the mill floor, and the last thing she had. She has a camp kitchen to run and both hands on the wheel. She is done handing God anything else to take.

Micah Barrett comes in with Cornerstone, the volunteer crew that puts wrecked towns back together for free. He can read a hundred-year-old house the way other men read scripture, and he cannot stand to be thanked. He served his years. He has stayed sober. He is still working off a debt he does not believe will ever be square.

Then the flood-cut ground beside an empty riverbank house gives up bones, and a story Hollow's Bend settled a generation ago stops being true. Suspicion goes where it always goes: to the outsider with the record. The only person who can prove otherwise is the woman keeping the town's old paperwork, and the harder Nora looks, the less her own town adds up.

Someone here has spent a lifetime being everybody's friend to keep this buried. He is patient, he is trusted, and he is not finished.

She will have to let herself need somebody. He will have to let himself be forgiven. And they are running out of dry ground to do it on.

Faith, grace, and second chances. Small-town warmth, real danger, and a love story that never crosses the line.

Book 1 in the Broken Ground Series. Each book can be read as a standalone

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798172715280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228