A wall of earth a mile high, two men, one rope, and a sheepherder's cabin that hasn't sheltered anyone in thirty years. With one canteen of water between them and the storm hammering at the walls, Eli finally starts to talk. By morning, everything has changed, except the one thing he says in the barn.

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He saw everything from the porch. He hasn't said a word about it. Under a hundred and eight degrees, on a fence his father built by hand, Eli Hatcher keeps working, and keeps watching. Then the wire snaps, the needle comes out, and his daughter arrives a minute too early.

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Noah came to West Texas to study water. Eli Hatcher has none left, three hundred head of cattle dying of thirst, and no time for an intern he forgot he signed for. One rope, one well, and one lie that's already too late to take back.

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