The Springsweet

The Springsweet

By Saundra Mitchell

Pages

304

Rating

3.80

Year

2012

RomanceFantasyParanormalYoung AdultHistorical FictionHistorical

Description

Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fianc�, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leavesBaltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowedaunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishingability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a"springsweet" to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden ofholding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water.Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply survivingand start living.
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