The Water Thief — Robert Baldwin

As an engineer, Jake Woods' job requires him to create systems that will overcome obstacles efficiently. Yet he can't seem to concoct a plan that will help him to get his life back on track during the year that follows a tragic accident in the wilds of Canada. Perhaps what he needs is unattainable; or perhaps it is too deeply entwined with what he suspects are his wife's secrets and what he knows to be his own. The only action that occurs to him is to tie up loose ends at home and return to the backcountry.

Frank and profound, THE WATER THIEF is the story of one man's journey toward redemption. It is both a riveting adventure story and a piercing exposé on spiritual isolation and the one thing with the power to prevail over it: forgiveness.

Written in prose that is lyrical and laconic, THE WATER THIEF peels back layer upon layer of raw emotion and exposes the bone that sustains us all.