Seven Kinds of Rain

2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Historical Fiction

On a southern Nebraska prairie in 1919, in small-town Darkwater Creek, an abandoned housemaid with vaudeville memories, a railroad magnate's neglected son, and a runaway Pawnee boy come of age where money is power, the right name brings privilege, and the color of your skin can make you disappear.

Witnesses to criminal tragedy, Margaret Rose, Jack and Kuruk gather in their riverside treehouse for courage. Their love and loyalty are strong, but will the town's corruption divide them?

Book One of the River Saga, Seven Kinds of Rain revives three unwanted children's voices, a tall-grass prairie scarred by railroad tracks, the mythic frontier's fading heartbeat, and the violence that stole the West.