Brianna Bathsheba Wright Waters has always been a good girl, until David R. Shepherd, also known as gospel recording artist King d.Avid, renters her world after a brief meeting when she was ten. After over a decade, seeing Brianna all grown-up triggers the igniting of a desire for her inside King d.Avid. But he knows she's off limits. Her young husband Unzell works hard as one of King d.Avid's production managers. Spending weeks—sometimes months away from home to compensate for a football injury that shattered the dreams that he had set for himself and his young wife becomes a lifestyle for him. At the tail-end of his international tour, King d.Avid sends his crew abroad ahead of him and takes a few days of rest. A chance encounter with Brianna becomes more than he bargained for, and fixing the mess he makes of the situation becomes larger than the situation itself.

The story is told in third person from the perspectives of King d.Avid and Brianna. This works well because the only real antagonists in the story are the inner persons of these two characters. They are constantly in battle with their own spirits, so it is only fitting that readers have access to those inner thoughts and dilemmas. Griggs does a good job of creating a bond between these two characters and her readers. With that said, at times, the characters, even outside of these two, seem overly righteous or overly evil. Too, after I figured out the basis of the story, it was simple to predict the ending. However, these minor things did not take away from the story for me. I enjoyed reading this book from cover-to-cover.

REDEEMING WATERS is a beautiful, hip, and spiritual retelling of one of the most memorable and redemptive stories in the Bible. The characters are engaging and honest, but what I like most is that I didn't realize the story was a modern-day retelling until I was halfway through the book.

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