DRY

The world you inherit is the one you fight for.

Rajasthan, the near future. Fifteen-year-old Riya Mehta can build anything out of junk — but she can't make it rain. Her village's wells are running dry, and a slick tanker cartel is selling back the water that should be free, at a price the families can barely pay.

So Riya builds a brilliant machine to save them. And nobody trusts it. Only when she stops trying to fix the village for them, and starts building with them — learning the old water-wisdom her grandmother never forgot — does the water begin to return. And with it, the village.

A tense, inventive graphic novel for readers 13–17 about water scarcity, clever engineering, and the discovery that the hardest problem is never the machine — it's people. Grounded in the real water crisis of rural India and the ancient rain-harvesting methods now bringing dry land back to life. Book Two of The Reckoning, in the Climate Keepers universe.

Includes a "What Is Real" facts section and a "You Are a Keeper Now" call to action.