A Dry Spell - Hardcover

Moloney, Susie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385256639 ISBN 13: 9780385256636

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, 1997

Synopsis

A woman haunted by fear. A town gripped by terror. A man with the power to set them both free.

Karen Grange came to Goodlands, North Dakota, to start her life over.Instead, she watches a once-thriving town die before her eyes. Four years without rain has struck Goodlands like a curse, withering crops and darkening the air with dust. In its wake, a sudden wave of strange, twisted crimes has shattered families and lives. Desperate, Karen reaches out to the only man who can help-a man who offers a miracle...and promises to heal her wounded heart.

His name is Tom Keatley. A drifter, an outsider like Karen, Tom is a rainmaker, the stuff of myth. But to Karen, he is her last hope.

Now, as Tom struggles to pull rain from the sky, something unexpected happens that changes both of their lives forever. For beneath the hard, cracked earth, a shattering secret is about to explode-a secret whose chilling repercussions will challenge a man's courage, a woman's desire...and the soul of an angry, embittered town.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"The myth of the rainmaker...is given a Stephen-King-like twist in this atmospheric, vividly peopled novel. Moloney [creates] a modern-day American Gothic...[with a] climactic battle between the living and the dead. In Moloney's capable hands, the special effects always work in support of characterization--which is the best special effect of all." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

From the Inside Flap:

A town of wide open prairies and endless skies, Goodlands, North Dakota, seemed the perfect place to farm and raise a family--until four years without rain brought the town to its knees.  Now darkness has descended on Goodlands: fires are singeing the already parched land, suspicious crimes are on the rise and an ever-increasing sense of doom is enveloping the town.  Goodlands is being held in the grip of something beyond weather.  And only a stranger can set it free.

Tom Keatley has pulled rain from the sky in town after arid town.  A loner, a drifter, Tom is a rainmaker, the stuff of myth.  But to Karen Grange, an outsider like Tom, he is her only hope to save the dying town.  For Tom Keatley, inextricably drawn to Goodlands and to Karen, the storm is just beginning.  Because beneath the hard, cracked earth is a shattering secret that only he can uncover.  And in the hot, dry air, a sinister force is gathering strength, ready to wage a war for the soul of the town.  

With its unforgettable characters, tautly woven human dramas and harrowing portrait of the power of nature, A Dry Spell weaves a spell all its own--one that stays with you long after the last page is turned.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385256639
• ISBN 13: 9780385256636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400