Ashwater Grace

In a dust-choked New Mexico boomtown where the men have ridden off to war or work, a widowed telegraph clerk helps a band of outlawed women and runaway miners hold the only freshwater spring against a sanctimonious cattle baron and his deputized gunmen. As the siege tightens, every message she sends becomes a bullet—or a lifeline—forcing the town to decide whether salvation comes from law, or from the people the law abandoned.