A nationwide drought causes the taps to run dry and ex-marine and social worker Martin Makepeace must take drastic action to protect his family, while corrupt politicians try to use the drought to their advantage.

As the famine of the early Dust Bowl years forces their neighbors to abandon their homesteads one by one, the Bells hang on to Mulehead and the only life they've known.

In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

Nestled in bucolic upstate New York, the Pennywort farm has at its center a remarkable maze of colorful gardens where local legend says a visitor can gain answers to life's most difficult problems. The labyrinth has never helped Olivia Pennywort, the garden's enigmatic caretaker. She's spent her entire life there harboring a secret. But when her childhood best friend Sam Van Winkle returns to the valley, Olivia begins to question her safe, isolated...

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky-where nothing is normal. It's Labor Day weekend in Normal, and if you know anything about camping and RVing, you know it's one of the busiest times of the year. Unfortunately, Daniel Boone National Park is in danger of being closed due to a drought and local businesses are scrambling for ideas to survive a possible shutdown. Happy Trails Campground is at the center of a murder in which campers as well as locals are suspects....

"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...