Drought and War

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The sky hasn't rained in weeks-and the ground isn't the only thing ready to break.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the scorched summer of 1848 the Oregon frontier teeters on the edge of collapse. The drought has turned Brookside into a tinderbox where failed crops and dying livestock fuel fear and rising tempers. But for Constable Tobias Kennedy the danger isn't just the weather-it's the people.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Once a mountain man now the law in a land with little order Kennedy knows the signs of trouble. Whispers of an Indian uprising ripple through the valley and when a mysterious medicine show rolls into town its flashy promises and crooked dealings ignite unrest. As old wounds reopen and blame spreads like wildfire Kennedy must walk a knife's edge between duty and survival.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Backed by his grizzled fur-trade partner and haunted by a growing attachment to the widow Irene Creighton Kennedy faces the impossible: protect a town cracking under pressure while keeping his own heart from slipping out of reach.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a land where the sky won't rain and the peace won't hold one man must stand against the storm.</span></p>