The Lowland Current

Telford Wainwright is a pragmatic chief sluice-engineer who relies on calculated hydraulic models to keep the regional grid alive. Morwenna Clayrow is an intuitive riverbank soil-steward who uses traditional sediment-terrace farming to protect community topsoil. When regional grid authorities mandate a catastrophic release of silt-choked floodwaters across the agricultural basin to prevent an urban blackout, their lives collide in the claustrophobic monitoring station of the estuary barrage. As they argue over water-displacement schedules and battle over temperamental valve servos, their mutual irritation sparks an intense physical attraction, forcing them to choose between their opposing duties and the growing bond between them.