Black Water Betrayal: Where the Turns

Book Two of the Cañada del Hueso Saga The well is failing. The riders are watching. >After the violence of Bone Canyon, Mateo Ríos returns to the schoolhouse carrying new wounds and troubling questions about the hidden water systems his father spent a lifetime protecting. As drought tightens its grip on the New Mexico Territory, a new threat emerges from beyond the ridges. The riders do not want land. >When the schoolhouse well begins to fail, Eliza Calder races to protect records that reveal a forgotten network hidden beneath the frontier: water routes, survival ledgers, and secrets powerful enough to reshape the territory. >And thirst is only the beginning. Black Water Betrayal is the second novel in the Cañada del Hueso Saga, a historical frontier adventure blending survival realism, political intrigue, hidden infrastructure, and slow-burn romance in the drought-stricken New Mexico Territory.