Crossing the Bar : A Search and Rescue Christian Romantic Suspense (Cascade Rescue Book 5)

He has spent thirteen years running toward the water that took his father. She knows better than anyone that some waters cannot be controlled.

Chase Elliot knows the Columbia River Bar.

He knows how quickly calm water can turn dangerous, how to read a swell before the forecast catches up, and exactly what the bar took from him thirteen years ago.

He also knows better than to get attached to Mia Vaughn.

Mia is a Coast Guard lieutenant with a talent for command, a dry sense of humor, and a habit of writing Chase up whenever he pushes the limits. She has her own reasons for keeping people at a careful distance, and Chase is the last man she needs complicating her life.

But when a series of dangerous rescues brings them together, professional friction becomes something neither of them can ignore.

Then a powerful storm bears down on the coast.

A disabled cargo ship is being driven toward the bar with nineteen people aboard, the seas are building, and every rescue asset must work together before the worst water on the coast claims another crew.

For Mia, the crisis demands calm.

For Chase, it demands that he face the water he has spent years trying to outrun.

And when the storm passes, they will have to confront a different kind of uncertainty—what happens when the person you’ve finally let close has a road of her own to follow?

Crossing the Bar is a clean Christian coastal rescue romance featuring a rugged water-rescue hero, a capable Coast Guard heroine, dangerous ocean rescues, slow-burn romance, dry humor, found family, faith, grief, and two people learning that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is trust God—and let go.