What The River Keeps: A Novel

Twenty years ago, Ruthie Combs disappeared from Harlow's Bend, Georgia, and the town closed the file, closed the wound, and moved on. GBI Agent Kate Marsh never did.When a demolition crew uncovers Ruthie's remains beneath the old cotton gin, Kate is sent home to the town she swore she'd never return to - and straight into the path of the one man she never stopped loving. Pastor Caleb Whitfield still remembers the day Kate left him standing at the altar. He never expected God to bring her back through the door of a murder investigation.As Kate digs into a twenty-year-old cover-up, she learns Harlow's Bend has spent two decades protecting someone it trusts completely - and that someone is running out of room to hide. When the threats turn personal, Kate and Caleb are forced to choose between the safety of silence and the cost of the truth, even if it means losing everything they've only just found the courage to want again.A small-town cotton gin. A twenty-year-old secret. A pastor and the woman he never stopped praying for.What the River Keeps is a clean, faith-filled romantic suspense novel about the wreckage grace can still redeem - and the truth that always, eventually, rises to the surface. Christian Suspense Mystery Romance