In the misty valleys of Derbyshire, where Huguenot families built their mills centuries ago, two boys from different worlds forge a friendship that will test everything they know. Will, the miller's son, and Josh, the vicar's boy, roam the dales with the careless certainty of youth until a visiting artist arrives to sketch their hidden world, and a shadow falls across the valley. James Drinkwater is a man with hungry eyes and a mill to call his own. As mysterious fires plague the mill and floodwaters rise, Will and Josh must race to protect everything they love. The artist's presence holds more secrets than anyone realizes, and the boys discover that courage isn't the absence of fear, but the choice to stand when everything crumbles. This is adventure at its most elemental: water and fire, loyalty and betrayal, the unbreakable bond between boys who refuse to abandon each other.
