Remember How It Rained

River Saga #2

by K. Lyn Wurth

Divided in childhood but children no more, Margaret Rose, Jack and Kuruk answer the echoes of childhood loves, memories and voices. Power is shifting in Darkwater Creek, old crimes cry out for justice and Nebraska’s deadliest floodwaters gather in the west.

Book Two of the River Saga, Remember How It Rained continues Seven Kinds of Rain’s voices of innocence, corruption, courage and justice on the Great Plains. It sings of running away and coming home to find love, truth and justice in the places and people who won’t let you go.

332 pages, Paperback

Published January 27, 2017

About the author

K. Lyn Wurth, a lifelong American Great Plains and Rocky Mountain region settler, writes fiction that considers health, family life, regional experiences and history.

A graduate of Augustana College in South Dakota, she then focused on Great Plains and Western literature and creative writing, for her Master of Arts in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

With other education and life experience in medicine, teaching and visual arts, she now writes stories and novels in rural northwest Iowa, where she’s found love and roots with her husband, David.

Reviews

[Kourtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the sequel, the 3 main characters return to Darkwater Creek, NE, as adults. All three have their own scars (emotional or physical) from childhood that they carry with them into adulthood. The themes of love, truth and justice run deep in this series.

This is a gritty, compelling story written by a master in her craft. The author weaves a tapestry of emotions that ensnare the reader. She brings the setting to life so that it feels like another character in the novel. I can still taste the dust storm.

A beautiful work of historical fiction that will linger with the reader long after the last page is read.

[Heidi Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a woven tapestry of colorful, tragic characters--misfits and outsiders who are bound together in love and friendship, through horrific cruelties they witnessed as children. Wurth creates evocative word pictures. I can feel and taste the dust storm, smell the rotting sulfur of the receding flood waters, and hear the creak and thunk of the old truck door as it opens and closes. I love her writing and her stories!

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good and just ending

[Dorothy Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received an Advance Reader's Copy. I had read the first book in the series and became invested in the characters. This second in the series delivered a satisfying closure. The characters remained true to who they were. The story was compelling. K. Lyn Wurth has a way of intertwining history and geography with story so that the place itself becomes a character. I will read everything she writes.