Beautifully written action adventure inspired by true events that changed America. A young woman dreams of finding her birth family but first must win over a narcissistic impoverished step father and take on land grabbers who drained swampland to create highly fertile crop land, now affordable only by corporations and rich speculators. But when levees fail, more than a million homes are buried in an epic catastrophe as science, politics, race, honor, and high society clash. ...read more