White Caps on the Brown

White Caps on the Brown opens with mounting environmental and political tension around a dangerously altered Mississippi River. Dr. Lena Rourke, a hydrometeorologist, notices alarming signs that the river is overheating and destabilizing the atmosphere, likely due to warm reservoir releases meant to support barge traffic during drought conditions. Her data suggests the river is fueling humidity, ecological collapse, and the potential for severe weather. >Meanwhile, on the river itself, veteran towboat captain Jace Holloway senses that the Mississippi is behaving in unfamiliar, unsettling ways-warmer, shallower, and strangely unstable. Together, these opening chapters establish a looming disaster, a fractured marriage, and a city pushing nature past its limits while something ominous builds in the sky and on the water.

Pages: 520, Paperback, Independently published