River of No Return: Canoes and Confessions

In the heart of a remote canyon, the river takes everything, except the truth.

When Celia Morgan, a grieving widow haunted by loss, signs up for a guided rafting trip through one of America's most unforgiving wilderness rivers, she doesn't expect to survive, let alone begin healing. But a violent capsize in Class V rapids leaves her and seasoned river guide Ford Hawthorne injured, off-course, and stranded in miles of wild water with no communication and no way out.

As the days and the currents grow deadlier, what begins as a fight for physical survival turns into something deeper. Forced to confront each other and themselves, Celia and Ford share hard truths, past wounds, and secrets buried beneath grief and guilt. With every rapid, every scar, and every hard-won breath, they forge an unlikely bond shaped by wilderness, pain, and the possibility of something more.

But the river has a memory of its own.

And some confessions don't stay buried.

Blending visceral survival storytelling with emotional depth, River of No Return is a powerful journey through nature's wrath and human resilience, a story of capsizing and choosing to rise again.

For readers of The River, Into the Wild, and Where the Crawdads Sing, this is a novel about what we lose, what we carry, and how we find the current that can carry us home.