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. Sensitive, intelligent, sometimes tempestuous Adele Dawson finds courage from half-sisters, whom she once loathed when her mother died in childbirth. Cramped inside a small tenant farmer's home, the girls team up against her stepfather who is all too eager to hide his dark history. Adele finds friendship, love and courage from a young city man, a relationship forbidden by all parents for crossing social lines. When August introduces his new girlfriend, a political exploiter, the sisters form a strong bond and form a secret club to right their father's wrongs. In the dead of night, Adele learns her stepfather has a contract to sell her toddler brother, Isaac in exchange for lost land.Adele is determined to live up to her mother’s last whispered words to her, “You have your father’s heart. Please find his family.” An unforgettable woman, Adele must choose whether to protect her sisters from her stepfather’s selfish and deadly aspirations or accept her birth family in West Virginia. While in West Virginia, she discovers her stepfather’s dark history and the real story behind her father’s death. A sweeping, fast paced story set in a devastating backdrop of American 1930s history shows the uncommon strength of courageous girls who forge unthinkable changes in their small town. Discover yourself in Adele’s dream to overcome oppression and find redemption in family, love and forgiveness in this absorbing historical teen book, appreciated by adults.