Where the Current Carries: A Small-Town Christian Romance (Tides oF Grace Book 4)

He spent fifteen years charming every room he walked into.

She spent three years making sure no one noticed she was in the room at all.

Nico Beaulieu has cooked in kitchens across the country—Navy galleys, award-winning restaurants, every city that would have him and none that could keep him. He’s talented, restless, and running from the terrifying possibility that who he really is, underneath the charm and the easy smile, might not be enough. When his sister Lila calls him back to Bellefontaine, Louisiana, to help reopen their late grandmother’s restaurant, Nico tells himself it’s temporary. A few weeks. A summer at most.

Then he walks into the church kitchen.

Louise Fontenot has been feeding the people of Bellefontaine for three years—running the community meal program, managing the after-school ministry, holding together every thread no one else can see. She is competent, composed, and completely invisible. The church sees her work. Her family sees her usefulness. No one sees her. She eats her own dinner standing over the sink because sitting at a table set for one is the loneliest thing she knows.

When the charming new volunteer shows up at five forty-five in the morning with a knife roll and homemade stock, Louise is unimpressed. She has no use for charm. She has no patience for performance. What she doesn’t expect is the man underneath—the one who cooks not for applause but for need, who sees her not as the program director but as the woman, and who stays. Not because staying is easy, but because leaving would be the lie he’s been telling himself for fifteen years.

Set in the bayou country of southern Louisiana, Where the Current Carries is a story about two people who built their lives around being indispensable—and who must learn that being seen is not the same as being needed. It is a story about the kitchens that hold us, the meals that bring us together, and the slow, patient grace that carries even the most guarded hearts to the place where they belong.

Where the Current Carries is the fourth book in the Tides of Grace series.

Each book can be read as a standalone.

A clean Christian contemporary romance.

Faith-centered. Grace always finds the shore.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Small-town romance set in the Louisiana bayou

• Slow-burn love stories between emotionally guarded characters

• Christian fiction with an organic faith thread

• Southern settings with rich food and family culture

• Romances where the hero earns the heroine’s trust one honest moment at a time

Tides of Grace Series
Book One: Where the Tide Returns
Book Two: Where the Shore Begins
Book Three: Where the Bayou Bends
Book Four: Where the Current Carries
Book Five: Where the Water Remembers