Mystery Book - Historical #103

A family fighting for their land. A country heading into war. And a thirst powerful enough to change everything.

On a remote California ranch beneath the mountains, a widowed father has spent years protecting the land his family calls home.

His greatest enemy?

The powerful forces determined to take the valley's most precious resource:

Water.

But as his twin children reach adulthood, a much larger conflict is about to transform their lives.

One leaves home to join the Navy and is sent to Pearl Harbor just before the bombs fall.

The other remains behind, trying to discover what kind of life—and love—she wants for herself.

Then the U.S. government announces plans to build a Japanese American incarceration camp nearby.

The young government official sent to help establish it arrives believing he's simply doing his job. But as he becomes entangled with the ranching family—and increasingly drawn to the fiercely independent daughter—he begins confronting the devastating reality of what he's been asked to create.

Against a landscape where every drop of water matters, families will experience love, grief, injustice, desire, and impossible choices.

And everyone is thirsting for something.