Walter notices water in his everyday activities and begins to write down his observations and the results of his experiments in a notebook that he shares with a friend.

Tasked with bringing life--giving rain to all people of the Quartern, Shale, finally free from his greatest enemy, turns to Terelle, who can covertly boost his powers with her own mystical abilities, for help in saving his people.

Relates how the water in a park is used in different ways by the human and animal inhabitants of a neighborhood.

"Shale has been betrayed, drugged, and left at the feet of his greatest enemy. Now he must decide to work with those who have plotted against him or let thousands of waterless die. He has great power but is not Stormlord. At least, not yet...Terelle has escaped the Scarpen in search of her homeland and her people, the mysterious Watergivers. But a desperate message will send her back to find Shale and face her worst fears."--P.[4] of cover.

"Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful...