Rebecca Lawton is an award-winning author and fluvial geologist, former Grand Canyon river guide, and aspiring bodhisattva. She lives and writes on an ephemeral stream in northern California steelhead country, at the foot of mountains walked forever by Miwok, Pomo, and Wappo. Her writing has won a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Nautilus Book Award, Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, Waterston Desert Writing Prize, WILLA for original softcover fiction, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and residencies at Hedgebrook and The Island Institute. Visit her at beccalawton.com.

WINNER, Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award
WINNER, WILLA in Original Softcover Fiction
HONOREE, indieB.R.A.G. Medallion in Fiction
"A fresh female voice and a bold take on environmental awareness. Great read!" - Women Writing the West
Nomadic whitewater guide Madeline Kruse finds herself drawn to the wild rivers of Utah and the tiny town of Junction. After a life on the run from her painful past, there's something-and someone-in Junction that draws her in and away from everything she's known. But when outside forces threaten the land and waters she's fallen for as well as the people she's left back home, she must choose: return to her roots to recover what's left of her family or make a stand in the new place she's come to love.
This debut novel about everything at stake in a forgotten corner of the West "keeps so many dazzling balls in the air: war, love, activism, wilderness-and always, always, the most dazzling ball of all-Lawton's dazzling descriptions of nature." - Jill Koenigsdorg, author of Phoebe and the Ghost of Chagall