Synopses & Reviews
Hailed as People magazine's Page-Turner of the Week, with film rights bought by Paramount, "A Dry Spell" recalls early Stephen King with its mesmerizing story of a drought-plagued town, a desperate woman, and the rainmaker who is their last and only hope.
Goodlands, North Dakota, has been suffering a massive drought for the past four years. Farms are in foreclosure, people's livelihoods are on the wane, and the town's beleaguered mortgage lender, Karen Grange, is beginning to think she should pack up and go back to Minneapolis.
Then Tom Keatley arrives. He calls himself a rainmaker. Karen thinks he's a drifter. And the townsfolk -- well, the townsfolk aren't about to trust the tall, mysterious stranger who wanders their streets, visits their dying farms, and keeps his thoughts to himself. They don't need an out-of-towner surveying their land, hands in pockets, eyes looking at the sky. What they need is rain.
What happens to Goodlands when Tom Keatley arrives is as mysterious as the elements. And what he unleashes is much more profound than a storm. There is a mystery behind this terrible drought, and a message, and its unrelenting fierceness can destroy the town of Goodlands. Tom knows this. But Karen does not. Not yet.
Tom and Karen's love affair, elemental and profound, is intertwined with the story of a town gripped by fear, and paralyzed by the sickness at its core. Suspenseful and gripping from the first page, "A Dry Spell" is a mesmerizing read.
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 the Author
Susie Moloney was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and has lived with her family on Ontario's Manitoulin Island since 1990. Her first novel was Bastion Falls.