“The river remembers what time tries to wash away.”

In the shadow of 1910s Chicago, where expectations run high and secrets run deep, a quiet current carries two souls toward each other.

Nell Whitmore, a young woman bound by duty yet driven by creative longing, finds her only freedom beside the river—a place where dreams take shape in ink and silence. Jamie Calloway, a reserved carpenter with his own quiet burdens, begins work near that same riverbank, never expecting to find something—or someone—that might change everything.

As seasons shift and years pass, their paths tangle and fray under the weight of family, time, and the choices that define us. Framed through fragments of forgotten journals and memories, Mend in the River is a deeply romantic, achingly lyrical novel about love lost and found, the scars we carry, and the places that hold our truths long after we’ve gone.