It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new water pipeline arrives before the bill collectors do.

Willa's son, Daniel, goes to work for the pipeline corporation instead of returning to help the family business. When Daniel reveals long-concealed secrets about his grandfather's death, Willa's world truly shatters. She's losing everything she values most: her farm, her son, her understanding of the past — and even her grip on reality itself. Vividly illustrating the human cost of climate change, Watershed is a page-turner of a novel about forgiveness, adaptation, and family bonds.

Doreen Vanderstoop is a Calgary-based writer, storyteller and musician. Her short fiction has been published by Loft on Eighth and Prairie Fire and has appeared online at Montreal Serai, Prairie Journal, Epiphany Magazine and others. As a storyteller/musician, she intersperses songs among tales of all genres, including her own original stories. Doreen performs for audiences of all ages at schools, libraries, festivals, conferences and more. She leads workshops to ignite in others a passion for the power of story — oral and written. Watershed is Doreen's debut novel.

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Tara Yelle is a retired public servant who has always loved to read aloud. She has been a volunteer CNIB Audiobook Narrator since the ’80s. Her favorite books to narrate are children's books and young adult novels. She has recorded in several languages, including Indigenous languages, and will even sing if the author has included song lyrics! Tara lives in Toronto and when she's not recording at the CNIB, she knits finger puppets for young patients at St. Joseph's Health Centre as part of the volunteer program there. Tara has recorded over 150 books volunteering for CNIB.

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• Winner, Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year

"Riveting . . . Watershed is the best kind of futuristic fiction, the kind that becomes grass-roots reality as we read."

Wayne Grady