McGinnis, Mindy

Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.

Lucy plans to have a future near her pondside home until a pond-borne disease burns through her community, prompting a journey west into unknown dangers.

In a barren world where water is a precious resource, Lynn protects a pond on her property from other people and wildlife alike, preserving every drop for her own use. When large groups of people begin approaching and leave threatening messages, however, Lynn realizes they will stop at nothing to obtain her water, and she will have to fight with all she has to protect it.