Synopsis:
"The American Southwest has been
decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares
of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should
just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas
water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel “cuts”
water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and its boss, Catherine
Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom
in the desert and that anyone who challenges her is left in the
gutted-suburban dust.
When rumors of a game-changing
water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. With a
wallet full of identities and a tricked-out Tesla, Angel arrows south,
hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and
the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, Angel encounters
Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist, who knows far more about Phoenix’s
water secrets than she admits, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas
migrant, who dreams of escaping north to those places where water still
falls from the sky.
As bodies begin to pile up and
bullets start flying, the three find themselves pawns in a game far
bigger, more corrupt, and dirtier than any of them could have imagined.
With Phoenix teetering on the verge of collapse and time running out for
Angel, Lucy, and Maria, their only hope for survival rests in one
another’s hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances
shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will
have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink."
"One hundred years ago, Sand’s ancestors made the long, one-way trip to the Fifth World, ready to work ceaselessly to terraform the planet. Descendants of native peoples like the Hopi and Zuni, they wanted to return to the way of life of their forebears, who honored the Kachina spirits.
Now, though, many of the planet’s inhabitants have begun to resent their grandparents’ decision to strand them in this harsh and forbidding place, and some have turned away from the customs of the Well-Behaved People. Sand has her doubts, but she longs to believe that the Kachina live on beyond the stars and have been readying a new domain for her people.
She may be right. Humans have discovered nine habitable worlds, all with life that shares a genetic code entirely alien to any on Earth. Someone has been seeding planets, bringing life to them. But no other sign of the ancient farmers has ever been discovered—until one day they return to the Fifth World. They do not like what they find."
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