Where the River Ends

  Christy—for fifteen years, for letting me do this, for loving me when I’m not loveable—which is more often than I care to admit, for forgiving me when I’m wrong…and for giving me the freedom to dream.

  Lord—Son of David…I want to see.

  Also by Charles Martin

  Chasing Fireflies

  Maggie

  When Crickets Cry

  Wrapped in Rain

  The Dead Don’t Dance

  PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY BOOKS

  Copyright © 2008 by Charles Martin

  Published in association with Yates & Yates, LLP, Attorneys and Counselors, Orange, CA

  All Rights Reserved

  Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  www.broadwaybooks.com

  BROADWAY BOOKS and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Martin, Charles 1969–

  Where the river ends / Charles Martin.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  1. Married people—Fiction. 2. Terminally ill—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3613.A7778W48 2008

  813'.6—dc22

  2007042819

  eISBN: 978-0-7679-3083-3

  v3.0