Where the Water Remembers: A Small-Town Christian Romance (Tides oF Grace Book 5)
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She left him at the altar. Ten years later, her sister’s wedding brings her home.
Ten years ago, Margaux Fontenot walked out the side door of Bellefontaine Community Church in her wedding dress and never looked back. She left behind the Louisiana bayou town that raised her, the family that silenced her, and the man who was waiting for her at the front of the sanctuary.
She never told him why.
Now her younger sister Louise is getting married—in the same church, in front of the same people—and she has made it clear: she is not walking that aisle without her sister beside her. Margaux comes home to a town that remembers everything, a mother who perfected the art of silence, and Eli Delacroix—the master woodworker she left standing at the altar, who never left Bellefontaine, and who has been asked to build the wedding.
The arch. The dock platform. The sixty-person reception table. The bride’s hope chest. All of it, built by the hands of the man Margaux loved and lost.
One week. One small town. No distance. No escape.
Margaux carries a secret that has shaped the last decade of her life—a secret buried in her blood, locked in her family’s silence, and tied to a diagnosis that changed everything she believed her future could hold. Eli has spent ten years building beautiful things for other people’s lives because the life he planned was taken from him without explanation.
But the bayou has a long memory. The grain always tells the truth. And some things can only stay hidden for so long before the pressure of proximity and the weight of love bring them, slowly and relentlessly, to the surface.
Where the Water Remembers is the sweeping series finale of Tides of Grace—a story of second chances, generational secrets, chronic illness, and the fierce, stubborn grace that reaches into the deepest silence and says: you don’t have to carry this alone.
Featuring beloved characters from all four previous books, a Louisiana bayou wedding, and a love story that proves the hardest truth is always worth telling.
Tides of Grace Series:
Book 1: Where the Tide Returns
Book 2: Where the Shore Begins
Book 3: Where the Bayou Bends
Book 4: Where the Current Carries
Book 5: Where the Water Remembers (Series Finale)