Publisher's Synopsis
A searing drought is visited upon the denizens of Round Prairie and with it has come a strapping Georgia youth in search of his long lost father. The Sherwoods celebrate the arrival of their first born child, Charles Douglas, and while grappling with his own newfound fatherhood Surge must now help a father and son reunite. In the face of a fierce prairie storm, Sherwood and the two runaways evade the grasp of river pirates, and the climactic reunion of these two tormented souls unfolds with all the explosive force of a hurricane.
