Water's Edge

A tangled web of lies, theft, and betrayalone lawyer must determine if that is all his late father left him. Ambitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a high-profile Atlanta law firm. But first he must clear one final matter from his docket: the closing of his deceased fathers law practice in his hometown of Bethel, Georgia. Killed in a mysterious boating accident, John Crane didnt appear to leave his son anything except the hassle of wrapping up loose ends. But instead of celebrating his promotion, Tom finds himself packing up his office, having suddenly been consolidated. To add insult to injury, that same night his girlfriend breaks up with him . . . by letter. Returning to Bethel with no sense of his future and no faith to fall back on, Tom just wants to settle his fathers affairs and get back to Atlanta. But then he runs into an unexpected roadblocktwo million dollars of unclaimed money stashed in a secret bank account. And evidence that his fathers death may not have been accidental. Worse still, a trail of data suggests his father played a role in an international fraud operation. Along the way, he meets a woman who is as beguiling as she is beautiful. And her interest in the outcome of the case is just as high as his. She challenges Toms assumptions . . . and his faith. Now he must decide whom he can trustand how far a fathers love can reach. A stand-alone legal drama Full-length Christian fiction novel set in the small-town South Includes discussion questions for book clubs