In Karen Hood-Caddy's third inspiring novel featuring environmentalist
heroine Jessie Dearborn, Jessie is concerned about the health of the
water in her northern town. Harley, Jessie's Ojibway partner, declares
he wants to move further north to where the real wilderness is. She is
torn between her allegiance to Harley and her devotion to the land. The
Guerrilla Grannies, a group of feisty seniors, start a door-to-door
campaign to raise environmental awareness. Trouble erupts when Jessie
and Elfy, one of the more cantankerous seniors, get into a scrap with a
local hockey hero and end up getting arrested. But this is also the
story of Dan Goreman, whose life is in disarray from a bitter divorce.
He decides to to accept a job his father has arranged for him at a
water-treatment plant near Jessie's home town. Dan falls in love with
Meagan, whose family owns a resort in the area. Dan becomes very
attached to Meagan's six year-old son, but she is concerned about Dan's
unresolved past and asks him to see a therapist. Begrudgingly, Dan
agrees and meets Jessie, who challenges him to be more truthful about
his past. When the resort's sewage lagoons burst and some of the waste
gets into the town's water, Dan makes a fatal mistake that could kill
someone that he loves. Now Jessie has many more problems to solve in her
quest to save Elfy from a jail term, help protect the lands and lakes
which she loves and begin to understand the patterns in her own life.
