Can’t Walk on Water by Ann Silver

Some men can’t be saved; but one woman is willing to try.

Katrina Lewis has learned the hard way that trusting the wrong man can destroy everything. After Escaping an abusive marriage and finding refuge in Diamond Creek, Nebraska, she’s finally building a safe life for herself and her twelve-year-old daughter, Frankie. She’s done with men Done with the risks. Done with love.
Then Derek Reynolds walks into her life.

A contractor with calloused hands and a dangerous past. He’s got secrets in his eyes and violence in his past. He’s exactly the kind of man Kat has learned to avoid. But Frankie sees something different in Derek. A connection Kat can’t understand. And when the truth about Derek’s past collides with Kat’s carefully guarded heart, she’s forced to confront the one thing she fears more than danger: the possibility of real love.

Derek is fighting his own demons—a brutal childhood, a history of hurting the people he cares about, and a desperate need for redemption. He never expected to want a second chance. He never expected to meet Kat. He definitely never expected to find the daughter he walked away from.

In Diamond Creek, Nebraska, a broken contractor and a guarded mother discover that sometimes the people worth fighting for are the ones who teach us how to fight for ourselves.

Can’t Walk on Water is a contemporary romance about trauma, redemption, family, and the transformative power of love.