The Water War: When Claims Collide

Book Five of the Cañada del Hueso Saga Someone has learned how to make a lie look official. Across the drought-stricken New Mexico Territory, false authority is spreading along the same roads that carry winter freight. Claims conflict, records no longer agree, and settlements must decide what to believe while scarce water and essential supplies cannot wait. Mateo Ríos and Eliza Calder helped build a way for communities to settle competing needs without surrendering control to any single rancher, settlement, or government. Now that authority can be copied, carried, and presented as truth. As winter closes roads and competing claims converge on the same water, the danger is no longer confined to what the records say. The decisions made from them have consequences for settlements already struggling to endure. Meanwhile, Captain Hale prepares for a Territorial Convention that could determine the future of everything the communities have built. The struggle has changed again. Competing claims now lead to the same water. There may not be enough for both. The Water War is the fifth novel in the Cañada del Hueso Saga, a historical frontier adventure of survival, water scarcity, contested authority, political intrigue, hidden history, and romance set in the drought-stricken New Mexico Territory.