What the Water Knows (Paperback)

Paperback. Some connections don't begin in this lifetime. Cole Whitfield has spent twenty years on the waters of the Florida Keys making peace with everything he couldn't find on land, including his marriage. At fifty-three, he is a man of tide tables and clean logs and things that can be measured. He doesn't believe in the unexplainable. Then a silver sedan pulls onto the adjacent property and Emma Callahan steps out and looks at the water the same way he looks at the water. Two seconds of contact on a boat dock, and something that has no business happening, happens. Emma came to Islamorada to facilitate a grief retreat. She is nearly twenty years younger than Cole, a woman who has spent her career sitting with other people's grief while carrying her own sealed shut, and she has learned to want things at a careful distance. It has never before failed her quite this completely. What follows is a past lives love story: told in present-day longing, through visions that arrive like memories from lifetimes neither of them can name, in the careful distance between a man with obligations and a woman who keeps returning to the same dock anyway. In the slow reckoning of a love that has been returning far longer than either of them knows. The water has always known. They are only beginning to catch up. For readers of Me Before You, The Time Traveler's Wife, and The Notebook. This book began as a letter the author could not send. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…