What Truth Requires

Annie Duncan trusts evidence. Eli Brandt trusts God. Neither is as certain as the other thinks.

Investigative reporter Annie Duncan has built a career on asking the question other people avoid: How do you know? Back in Cade Harbor with an uncertain career and little interest in returning to the faith she grew up around, she expects facts to remain safer than promises.

Then a century-old church archive puts her across a table from Eli Brandt.

Cade Harbor's new associate pastor is patient, historically minded, and maddeningly careful about what the records can actually prove. He is also carrying the scars of a former church conflict that taught him how much truth can cost when people do not want to hear it.

As Annie and Eli trace an inconsistency buried in accounts of the Great Storm of 1913, professional respect becomes friendship, and friendship begins asking for more. But when the evidence challenges a story Cade Harbor has cherished for generations, Annie and Eli discover that finding the truth may be easier than deciding what they owe it.

Annie believes integrity means following the evidence wherever it leads. Eli believes truth should never become a weapon.

Before they can find their way to each other, both will have to learn that trust cannot come with guarantees-and courage does not always keep the peace.

What Truth Requires is Book Two of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughters, a warm, clean contemporary Christian romance about faith, history, second chances, and the courage to love without having every answer first.