On a southern Nebraska prairie in 1919, in small-town Darkwater Creek, an abandoned housemaid, a railroad magnate’s neglected son, and a runaway Pawnee boy come of age where money is power, a good name brings privilege, and the color of your skin can make you disappear. Book One of the River Saga, Seven Kinds of Rain revives three unwanted children’s voices, a tall-grass prairie scarred by railroad tracks, the mythic frontier’s fading heartbeat, and the violence that stole the West.