Read the Water: A Search and Rescue Christian Romantic Suspense (Cascade Rescue Book 2)

He can read every river in the Cascades. What he can’t read is his own heart.

Levi Cole is the best swift-water rescuer on the Wenatchee—and the most reckless. He trusts the river, trusts his instincts, and trusts himself to get the job done. When the water turns dangerous, Levi goes in.

What he doesn’t do is stop.

He doesn’t stop long enough to face the father who has come back after fifteen years. He doesn’t stop long enough to grieve what was lost. And he certainly doesn’t stop long enough to ask why the only place he ever feels at peace is in the middle of a raging river.

Then Kelsey Bradford reports him.

Kelsey runs Bradford River Co. with one rule above all others: nobody gets hurt on her watch. Five years earlier, she watched the river take the man who taught her everything she knows. Since then, she has built her life around preparation, protocol, and never making the mistake that cost her so much.

Levi thinks she’s too cautious.

Kelsey thinks he’s a disaster waiting to happen.

Now the county has forced the reckless rescue legend and the careful river guide to work together on new safety protocols for the coming melt season.

Neither expects the other to understand them.

But as the river rises, the lines between argument and attraction begin to blur. Levi starts discovering that Kelsey sees more than his easy grin and fearless reputation. Kelsey begins to realize that beneath Levi’s recklessness is a man carrying a grief he has never learned to face.

And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to keep their own hearts behind the walls they’ve spent years building.

Because Kelsey knows exactly what it costs to lose someone in the water.

And Levi may be about to learn that the greatest danger isn’t always the current you can see.

Sometimes, the hardest thing is trusting God when you can’t control where the current takes you.

Read the Wateris a clean Christian river rescue romance featuring a reckless swift-water rescuer, a fiercely cautious rafting guide, enemies-to-lovers chemistry, slow-burn romance, high-stakes rescues, found family, and a faith journey about surrendering control and learning that still waters can be just as important as whitewater.