Gunnawah. Ronni Salt. 2025.

When nineteen-year-old farmgirl Adelaide Hoff an applies for a Cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. The paper’s owner, Valene Bullard, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work. 

What starts as a routine sssignment covering an irrigation project soon puts Adelaide on the trail of a much bigger story. Water is money in farming communities, and when Adelaide starts asking questions, it’s like she’s poked a bull ant’s nest. Someone will do whatever it takes to stop Adelaide and Val finding out how far the river of corruption and crime runs.

Shady deals.  Vested interests. A labyrinth of lies. It seems everyone in Gunnawah has a secret to keep. And too many are already dead quiet.