Soft as Water

<p><strong><em>A sensitive loner on the run from his past. </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>A rebellious young heiress with a death wish. </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>A bridge brings them together ... a mystery can tear them apart.</em></strong></p><p>Following a life-shattering accident conscience-stricken Will Archer seeks refuge in a small Ohio River town where he plans to live out his life as a virtual hermit. But a chance encounter with Essence Warner orphaned daughter of a jazz saxophonist and an aristocratic socialite entangles him in a quest to discover the truth behind the cold case of her parents' mysterious deaths.</p><p>As Will deciphers clues he becomes romantically entwined with Essence forming a relationship that draws him into a sordid underbelly of small-town existence that threatens his own life. At the same time he uncovers a dark secret that could set Essence free from her own path of self-destruction-or does she have a plan of her own?</p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Soft as Water</em> is a novel about bridges-between strangers across a river-and the dangers of mutual attraction when worlds divided by race wealth and culture collide. In the end though the novel offers a glimmer of hopefulness that survivors of trauma-physical emotional and sexual-can transcend their circumstances and find redemption through connection.</p>