The Safety of Deeper Water

Sandy Holston wears fishing lures for earrings and
wields a fly rod with uncanny accuracy.  She lives in a modest house on the banks of the Ripshin River in the southern Appalachian Mountains, a house she shares with a “heartbroken and angry,” skunk-killing dog.  She fishes for trout, is known to mangle the fishing tackle of men who don’t follow fishing regulations, and has become fascinated with one man who lives alone in a secluded cabin, an older man with a propensity for fishing naked from time to time.  

Sandy is on the brink of a life she desires in a place she loves. There is, however, one catch.  Her ex- husband will soon be released from prison, and the first thing he promises to do upon his release is to come for his ex-wife, bent on revenge for her betrayal several years earlier.  

“This quietly brilliant novel…balances plot and lyricism, mystery and romance, while evoking characters that find they belong beside—and especially in—the rare wildness of an Appalachian river.” --Appalachian Heritage

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