A Drink Is Owed

Fourteen months without rain, and Faye Crider hauls water for cash across a dying Oklahoma county, drinking hard to silence the ear she was born with. Her family has witched wells for four generations, and the neighbors have always paid well. Then a three-word letter calls her home: the mark's showing. Under the old hand-dug well, something ancient is thirsty, patient, and owed a child. Faye's twelve-year-old niece has already been chosen.