Keeper of Quiet Water: A Novel of Silence, Truth, and Choice

For twenty-three years, Elias Venn has lived above the village of Orison, tending its old mountain waterworks and asking almost nothing from the world below. He is not lonely. The spare, solitary life he has chosen is enough.Then his seventeen-year-old niece arrives carrying her dead mother's papers - and evidence that Orison is preparing to lease its only spring to a private water company.As drou...