Cece Blue Southern Charms -

It was Jonah who steadied the pieces into truth. Whitfield had been desperate, not for cruelty but for control. When Marcy threatened to leave and to expose what she’d seen—men meeting in the boathouse, deals whispered about paving over the marsh—he had panicked. An argument had flared. She had run. He had followed. Things had been said and done in the heat of a foolish fear, and the river had made its own justice.