Drought, doubt, insanity, and destiny.
All Jack O'Malley wanted was to settle into a quiet existence with the woman he loved and forget about the last decade of his life.
Returning to the Town of Kanen at the height of a fearsome drought made that impossible.
Whether it's the secret hiding in his crippling memories of the war, the persistent man who tracked him across the continent, the attention of the sadistic mayor, the deathbed stubbornness of the man who doesn't want to be his father-in-law, the fugitive hell-bent on killing O'Malley for revenge and freedom; or the lunatic preacher turning neighbor against neighbor survival in Kanen has never been so uncertain.