Still Water: Peace Was Never Part of the Plan

Still Water: Peace Was Never Part of the Plan

She came to sell the land. He needed her to. When cardiothoracic surgeon Cassidy Monroe inherits her late grandmother's lake property in Ember Creek, Montana, she arrives with a plan. Settle the estate. Make the practical decision. Return to the life she has spent years building on precision and distance. The valley was her grandmother's world. It was never meant to be hers. Reid Calloway has worked the same land for fifteen years. His ranch depends on water access that runs through the Monroe property. The arrangement was never formalized, never guaranteed. Now it rests entirely on a conversation with a woman who owes him nothing. His plan was reasonable. It did not account for her. As spring moves toward summer in the shadow of the Beartooth Range, Cassidy and Reid circle each other with the careful restraint of two people who have learned that wanting something is the first step toward losing it. Between them grows something neither is willing to name. Around them, a developer named Daniel Croft is quietly acquiring the valley, and the Monroe lakefront is the last piece he needs. The land will force a decision. So will everything else. Still Water is a slow-burn contemporary romance for readers who want the tension held long, the emotion earned, and the payoff worth every page of waiting. Set against the austere beauty of the Montana high country, it is a novel about self-sufficiency, inherited grief, and the cost of finally letting someone in. For fans of Jojo Moyes, Nicholas Evans, and emotionally intelligent adult romance.