The Keeping Tide

Some debts outlast the people who can pay them. Who will pay this one?

The tide is rising, and the clock is running.

When the joint assessment of the Willow Creek shoreline is finally finished, Greta Dawson learns what her family's healing has really been asking of them. The land the marsh needs to survive is more than a four-acre marker parcel: it is sixty-one acres, and twenty-two of them are the Dawson hay and pasture that her son Rob has spent his life building.

Ten weeks stand between the family and a state grant that could save the shoreline for good, with a rival county waiting to claim the money if they miss it. A wedding is on the calendar, and the barn where it's meant to take place sits at the end of an eroding ditch. A storm is forming offshore. And across the water, a Talohee elder with a lifetime of reasons to distrust a gentle offer of "partnership" is waiting to see what the Dawsons will actually do.

Greta once stood up before the whole town and said she was willing to give back what she'd held. Now she has to learn what it costs.

The fifth and final book in the Delta's Binding Tides series, The Keeping Tide is a story about faith that is lived and not merely spoken, about generosity that asks nothing in return, and about a family, and two peoples, learning to stand on the same shore at last.