WHERE THE RIVER MENDS: Book Four of the HEARTS OF GRACE series
Joseph Arena
By Joseph Arena
She returned home to settle the past. He never left because he couldn’t. Grace brought them both back to the river—for healing, for truth, for each other.
When trauma therapist Dr. Elise Hartley returns to Grace Harbor, she’s not there to reconnect. She’s there to clean out her late mother’s home, sign a few papers, and disappear—again. But nothing stays buried in a town that remembers, especially not when the river runs through every wound.
Noah Brenner, a single father and quiet river guide, has spent the last decade raising his daughter and avoiding the woman he once let slip away. But when a youth rafting trip takes a dangerous turn, Elise and Noah are forced back into each other’s lives—and into the truth they never faced.
As past and present collide, Elise must decide if healing means leaving once more—or finally staying.
And when a young girl with more wisdom than wounds brings hope to the surface, Elise begins to
Some rivers don’t just carry water.
They carry redemption.

