The Reservoir Between Us - Couverture souple

N, Felix

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1068041382 ISBN 13 : 9781068041389

Editeur : Felix N, 2026

Synopsis

Cornwall, Ontario is running dry, and the lake is finally giving up what it swallowed sixty-seven years ago.

Hydrologist Mara Venn has spent her career trusting that evidence speaks for itself. Then a record-low water level exposes the drowned road of Aultsville - the village her own family never talks about - and a rusted bell bracket bearing a name from her grandmother's hidden past. What Mara finds beneath the surface doesn't just threaten to expose a decades-old betrayal. It threatens to expose the quiet formula currently deciding who in her city gets water and who goes without.

Jonah Vale built that formula. As director of the region's Water Commons Assembly, he's spent three years believing that careful process is the only thing standing between Cornwall and outright collapse - three years since he chose that same careful process over the woman he once promised his whole life to. Now Mara is back, asking the one question his family has spent sixty years making sure nobody asks: what does "neutral" actually cost, and who's been paying it?

As the drought tightens and an old promise resurfaces - one written the year before Aultsville disappeared, guaranteeing something the region conveniently forgot - Mara and Jonah are forced to choose, together and separately, between the safety of silence and the harder, costlier work of the truth. A charter is coming. A gate may have to open. And somewhere beneath it all, a bell that shouldn't still be ringing keeps calling them both back to the water.

The Reservoir Between Us is a novel about what a region owes the people it displaced, what two people owe each other, and whether love can survive being honest for the first time.

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About the Author

Felix N.BBA.MA.QA'rb. writes fiction that treats ordinary communities as the site of extraordinary moral weight - small towns and mid-sized cities where a single formula, a single silence, or a single inherited decision turns out to carry the whole history of who a place has chosen to protect and who it has chosen to let go quiet.

Felix's work returns often to the same conviction: that injustice rarely announces itself as villainy. It arrives instead as policy, as process, as the reasonable-sounding choice a frightened, well-intentioned person makes under pressure - and that fiction's job is to make that choice visible again, long after the institutions built on top of it have learned to call it normal.

Felix lives close enough to water to never quite stop thinking about what it remembers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Felix N
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1068041382
• ISBN 13: 9781068041389
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible