The Healing Water

The day my old burn reappeared out of nowhere… I knew my life was about to change.

One moment I was sitting with my friends beneath the town gazebo, listening to Sachee speak. The next, pain shot through my hand, fresh and fiery, as if the injury had just happened.

It wasn’t an accident.

It was a calling.

Levi and I had already discovered the hidden cavern beneath Uncle Roy’s house—the glowing blue crystals, the sacred pool of crystal-clear Water, and the feeling that we were standing in a place far holier than we deserved to touch. We both heard the Water running beneath the town square.

No one has ever heard it together before.

When I place my hand in the pool, the burn vanishes completely. Healed. Gone. And suddenly the Water isn’t just legend or mystery—it’s alive.

But healing power comes with responsibility.

Sachee warns us that the Water is in danger of being discovered. A stranger is asking questions. And the Next Generation is being asked to step forward without the safety of Kris guiding every move.

Levi says his policeman’s mind has a thousand questions.

My heart has only one.

If the Water has chosen one of us to become its Keeper… what happens to the other?

Because falling in love with Levi felt simple.

Stepping into a sacred calling that could change everything does not.

This Christmas, the magic of Holly Well Springs is deeper than we ever imagined.

And protecting it may mean trusting the Water… and each other… more than ever before.