Saltwater Covenant (The Covenant Series Book 3) (Ebook)

She came to Hood Canal to run a clinic. She found something from which she couldn't look away.

Claire Marchand has done what she promised herself she would do: she stayed. She built. Lafayette is home, the community health clinic is running, and for the first time in years, her life has the shape of something chosen rather than something fled. Then Donna Chen calls with a fourteen-page county health report, a faith community on Hood Canal, and a note that says simply: I think it needs to be you.

Covenant Harbor looks exactly like what it claims to be — a second-generation fishing community built on covenant theology, cedar-shingled and carefully maintained, with lavender on the table and Scripture on the wall. But the seasonal workers in the bunkhouses behind the new fence haven't left when their season ended. The fleet deviates from its routes at night. The county nurse who filed a report eleven months ago is still waiting for someone to do something with what she found.

Wade Broussard is already in Seattle — Pacific Rim task force, Coast Guard coordination, a whiteboard full of flagged manifests — when Claire boards the ferry. He is on the dock when she arrives.

What neither of them expects is Esther: a Liberian woman with a scar above her right eyebrow and a seven-year-old daughter in Monrovia, who was in a West Africa clinic the week before the worst loss of Claire's life, and who has been waiting in a room with a covered window and a pitcher of water for someone to finally come.

Saltwater Covenant is the final book in the Covenant Series — a story about what it costs to witness hard things, what it means to be found by your own past, and what two careful people finally say when they think there are no more words.