CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Too Many Long Nights

1. A Visit to Riverhaven

2. A Future and a Hope

3. A Woman Grown

4. Night Watch

5. Missing Rachel

6. The Man Who Would Be Bishop

7. Music in the Night

8. A Not-So-Cozy Evening

9. Behind the Darkness

10. A Cry on the Mountain

11. A New Strategy

12. New Arrivals

13. What a Morning

14. Secrets

15. The Warning

16. An Enemy Within

17. A Change of Plans

18. Trouble Descending

19. Because of Rachel

20. Advice from a Friend

21. Fire in the Night

22. Counting the Cost

23. Failed Plans

24. Day of Blessing, Day of Trouble

25. Passing Through the Fire

26. What If?

27. End of a Search

28. From Hope to Grief

29. Family Matters

30. A Stirring of Rumors

31. A Secret Meeting

32. A Gift for Rachel

33. A Matter of Trust

34. Meetings That Matter

35. Confrontation

36. Stalker in the Shadows

37. An Unholy Proposal

38. Messages

39. Conviction

40. In Search of Guidance

41. A Highly Unexpected Turn of Events

42. Gant’s Dilemma

43. Time to Go Home

44. Stalking Rachel

45. Encounter with the Enemy

46. Rachel’s Answer

47. No Longer a Stranger

Epilogue: River Song

River of Mercy

Discussion Questions

About BJ Hoff

About the Publisher