The Far Shore: A Small Town Christian Romance (The Sisters of Wrenhaven Island Book 4)
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For ten years, June Mercer has run toward every disaster but her own. What happens when coming home is the bravest thing she’s ever had to do?
June has spent a decade as a relief nurse, deploying into floods and famines on three continents — the kind of woman who can be wheels-up to a disaster zone in a day, because holding still has always frightened her more than any catastrophe. She tells herself she runs toward the people who need her, not away from a life that might ask her to stay. But when the grandfather who raised her asks her to come home to Wrenhaven Island, she can’t say no. Eli is ninety-two, his heart is failing, and he has one last thing he means to do before he goes: convince his wildest granddaughter that the lamp he’s kept burning on the porch all these years was never a cage.
Dr. Jude Calder came to the island to disappear. A windswept barrier island — wild horses, two hundred stubborn souls, a clinic in an old net house — is exactly far enough from the city, and the child he couldn’t save, for a man to do his penance in peace. He has no intention of being found. But when June turns up at his clinic with steady hands and a wound she won’t name, the quiet doctor meets the one person on the island as set on leaving as he is on hiding.
Then a winter storm seals the island off from the mainland and puts a drowned little girl in their hands — forty feet from the only doctor for miles — and the two people most determined to leave become the only hope a child has.
Side by side at the clinic through that long storm season, two runners who’ve built their whole lives around leaving begin, terrifyingly, to want to stay. But June still keeps one foot on the next ferry, Jude still carries a grief he won’t set down, and Eli’s heart is running out of time to show her that being found is not the same as being trapped.
Can June finally stop running long enough to let herself be loved? Or will she leave the island — and Jude — the way she’s left everywhere else?
The Far Shore is a heartfelt, faith-filled Christian romance and the fourth book in The Sisters of Wrenhaven Island series — clean, Christ-centered, with a happy ending.