This Country Kills

Four summers of drought have left the Bitterwater Plateau drinking from one man's pipeline, and Kate Rudd keeps its windmills turning because nobody else will haul her mother's oxygen. Then a rancher's son turns up drowned in a stock tank at a well that was condemned dry twenty years ago — a tank brimming with cold, clean water. Kate is the only one asking where it came from. Out here, curiosity costs more than water, and she owes this country a brother.