The Wisdom of Water

In the third Jessie Dearborn novel, Jessie is concerned about the state of the water in her town. Her partner declares that he wants to move farther north where the real wilderness is. Jessie is torn in her allegiences, as she joins the Guerilla Grannis, a group of feisty seniors in a campaign to raise environmental awareness. But this is also the story of Dan Gorman, whose life is in disarray from a bitter divorce. He accepts a job at a water-treatment plant near Jessie's home. When waste from the resort gets into the towns water, Dan tries to cover up the spillage, but more people become ill, and some die. When Dan offers his own life in a suicide attempt, Jessie has many more problems than just rpotecting the lakes she loves and understanding the patterns in her own life.