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The Flood Line

A historical disaster novel · By B. Carter

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A Seer Stories novel · B. Carter

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The Flood Line

A City Underwater. Two Homes in Danger. One Choice That Cannot Be Undone.

Inside the story

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY • JANUARY 1937

THE RIVER KEPT RISING.

TWO FAMILIES KEPT WAITING.

BEN COULD REACH ONLY ONE IN TIME.

Eighteen-year-old Ben is good at things people can measure: rope, lumber, weight, and whether a boat will hold four people or three.

Then the Ohio River climbs into the streets. Ben joins an improvised rescue network, rowing medicine and families through neighborhoods he once knew by pavement.

Near the crest, two households need him at once: a sick mother with three children, and an older couple already trusting his promise. Ben makes the defensible choice. The water does not spare him its cost.

The river will fall. What he owes will remain.

Story
A historical disaster novel
Reading order
Reads standalone
Setting
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY • JANUARY 1937
Availability
Kindle & paperback

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