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Narrated by:
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Jonathan K. Riggs
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By:
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Charles Martin
About this listen
A riveting story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds by New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin.
Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes.
When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, Murph’s mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous turn. Drawn to Summer, and desperate to find her missing daughter, Murph is pulled deeper and deeper into the dark and dangerous world of modern-day slavery.
With help from some unexpected new friends, including a faithful Labrador he plucks from the ocean and an ex-convict named Clay, Murph must race against the clock to locate the girl before he is consumed by the secrets of his past—and the ghosts who tried to bury them.
With Charles Martin’s trademark lyricism and poignant prose, The Water Keeper is at once a tender love story and a heartrending search for freedom.
“Charles Martin fans rejoice, because he’s done it again . . . a multilayered story woven together with grace and redemption, and packed tight with tension and achingly real characters.” —Lauren Denton, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Hideaway
Part of The Murphy Shepherd series:
Book 1: The Water Keeper
Book 2: The Letter Keeper
Book 3: The Record Keeper
Full-length novel
Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Also by Charles Martin: The Mountain Between Us, Send Down the Rain, Long Way Gone, When Crickets Cry, Chasing Fireflies
©2020 Charles Martin (P)2020 Thomas NelsonListeners also enjoyed...
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Wow - What a great audiobook!!!
- By Dione on 01-16-24
By: Charles Martin
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Thunder and Rain
- A Novel
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Daniel May, Luci Christian Bell
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed - a modern-day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Samantha and her daughter, Hope, are on the run from a seemingly inescapable situation. They are in danger, desperate, and alone. Though they are strangers, Ty knows he can help - protecting the innocent is what he does best.
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A mans story, a love story?
- By Dennis on 03-12-13
By: Charles Martin
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The Mountain Between Us
- A Novel
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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When their last outgoing flight is cancelled, Ben finds a charter plane that can take him around the storm and drop him in Denver to catch a connection. And when the pilot says the single-engine prop plane can fit one more, if barely, Ben offers the seat to Ashley, knowing that she needs to get home just as urgently. And then the unthinkable happens. The pilot has a heart attack, and the plane crashes into one of the largest stretches of harsh and remote land in the United States.
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Threat of long slow painful death—by the listener
- By Chana Goanna on 03-02-18
By: Charles Martin
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Where the River Ends
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found their true soul mate.
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Perfect Ending.
- By tooonce72 on 08-01-14
By: Charles Martin
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Down Where My Love Lives
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Jonathan K. Riggs, Adam Verner
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Now Charles Martin’s Awakening series, The Dead Don’t Dance and Maggie, are available as a 2-in-1 audiobook!
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Persevered through it
- By VWeb on 02-03-24
By: Charles Martin
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Unwritten
- A Novel
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Father Steady Capri knows quite a bit about helping others. But he is afraid Katie Quinn's problems may be beyond his abilities. But there is one person who still may be able to save her from herself. He will show her an alternate escape, a way to write a new life. Ultimately, he will need to leave his secluded home and sacrifice the serenity he's found to help her. From the Florida coast, they will travel to the French countryside where they will discover the unwritten story of both their pasts and their future.
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Truly Exceptional Vacation
- By R. Whitman on 07-01-15
By: Charles Martin
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It Is Finished
- A 40-Day Pilgrimage Back to the Cross
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Charles Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Whether it is your first, tenth, or ten thousandth time looking up at the cross of Christ, you can trust New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin, to wrap an arm around your shoulder, come alongside and walk with you as a fellow pilgrim headed in the same direction and answering the same question: "What will I do with this man, Jesus?"
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Perfectly told story 
- By Jinelle naylor on 02-08-24
By: Charles Martin
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A Life Intercepted
- A Novel
- By: Charles Martin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Twelve years ago Matthew "the Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was the number one NFL draft pick. But on the night of the draft, he plummeted from the pinnacle of esteem. Falsely accused of a heinous crime with irrefutable evidence, it seemed in an instant all was lost—his reputation, his career, his freedom, and most devastatingly, the love of his life.
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Beautiful!!
- By mary s on 02-23-15
By: Charles Martin
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
- By: Glendy Vanderah
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.
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Enjoyable. Which "story" version is true...
- By Christina on 03-16-19
By: Glendy Vanderah
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The Guardians
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo’s.
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Is Grisham getting serious about writing again?
- By Wayne on 10-17-19
By: John Grisham
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- Southard
- 08-11-21
Injustice
This is a novel that I added to my list based on a recommendation from Annie F. Downs, who is an author/podcaster/influencer my wife follows. Considering the source, I didn’t expect the action/adventure/rescue/masculine side of this book. The book is about Murphy Shepherd, who is the water keeper. He finds the lost or stolen or missing. He rescues them when he can. He has considerable training and resources and still struggles against those criminal types who make tons of money exploiting those less powerful. Murph is headed south along the coast of Florida to scatter the ashes of his mentor, Fingers. As he travels, he attracts those who need help like a magnet. By the time he makes it to his destination, his boat holds a desperate mother searching for a lost teen daughter, a teen girl looking for her past, an old man headed south to say goodby to his past, and the smartest dog he’s ever met. Most of the story takes place on Murph’s boat as he travels down the coast, which makes this desert kid nervous and self-conscious about all the boat skills I never learned. Here are some of the lessons I pulled out of this story: Water absorbs all kinds of abuse and heals quickly- in people this type of resilience and healing is only possible with love. People have an unbelievable capacity to harm, abuse, and objectify others (trafficking, drugs, greed, flesh, fear, neglect). This is the world we live in. All darkness and evil need to thrive is for good men to do nothing. This book tells stories of injustice in a way that is easy to emotionally relate to. It goes with Just Courage (reviewed below) in a powerful way.
I recommend this book to adventurers and those wanting to learn about injustice.
(Rated PG-13, Score 8/10)
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- Janice D. Hager
- 07-10-20
Best read in a long time!
Great story! Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Narrator is perfect for the tone of the book.
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- Jan Grizzel
- 05-28-20
Exceeded expectations
Bravo bravo bravo. Why does it ever have to end??? I could listen to Charles Martin 24 hours a day. The little things he brings out and the characters are wonderful. This was a hard listen just thinking about the sex slave traffic and how many girls are destroyed and sold as a result. Charles handles this delicate situation very well. Thank you for another book well written without cursing, sex and other junk so many authors think they need to write a story! And Jonathan Riggs is perfect as narrator. Highly highly recommend
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- Stevielee
- 06-29-20
Shockingly Consistent Excellence
Charles Martin does it again and again and again. He turns your life upside down and into full view as you turn each page (or play it in your app). His words expose your own battle with life and death and pain and hope. And you leave washed and filled. Phenomenal book about family and past and hope for a future. Starts and ends craftily. And all the in between is right on the money. You are ready to read this one again immediately after finishing. Well done Charles.
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- annes
- 06-21-20
Speechless
I don't know what to say. I really don't know what to say. It made me feel more emotions than I've possibly felt from a book.
And the narrator did a fabulous job tho, cannot imagine anyone better for it.
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- Jane Bates
- 05-19-20
Wonderful Read/Listen!
Don't start this without a clear calendar because you won't want to put it down! Full of suspense and action, but a wonderful love story!
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-26-21
super engaging
the story was very compelling, about a disturbing topic, but handled well. violence was there but not graphic which is refreshing, characters each well developed.
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- Amazon Customer Linda Blint
- 06-11-21
great read
author new to me but will read more of his writing. absolutely loved it. couldn't put it down until done.
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- Bean
- 06-04-21
Great
That was a tremendous read!
I think I have a new favorite book and character.
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- melody doll
- 03-08-21
The water keeper
Excellent- what will be next for them ???
First time I read this author- gotta have more !
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