num_pages: 352
description: A riveting new story of heroism heartache and the power of love to heal all wounds.Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island tending the grounds for a church with no parishioners and hes dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes.When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Floridas Intracoastal Waterway Murphs mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous turn. Drawn to Summer and desperate to find her missing daughter Murph is pulled deeper and deeper into the dark and dangerous world of modern-day slavery.With help from some unexpected new friends including a faithful Labrador he plucks from the ocean and an ex-convict named Clay Murph must race against the clock to locate the girl before he is consumed by the secrets of his pastand the ghosts who tried to bury them.With Martin's trademark lyricism and poignant prose The Water Keeper is at once a tender love story a heartrending search for freedom and a reminder that the needs of the one outweigh those of the ninety-nine.
language: English
title: The Water Keeper
publisher: Thomas Nelson