Gathering Water
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Growing up as a foster kid, there's plenty Della Doe doesn't know - like who her parents were and what her real name is.
On the day she ages out of the system, Della knows her constrained life will be forever changed, but she didn't know one thin folder would be the catalyst.
Armed with her mother's name and a tendril of hope, Della travels across country to claim an inheritance far larger than the sound-side home with her name on the deed. As she struggles to adapt to a new life, Della is pulled into an unimaginable world - one on the brink of war - and it will take everything she has not drown in a destiny she didn't choose.
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