When Greed has Consequences: An American Tragedy (The Keepers' Legacy) (en Inglés)
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The land has always known how to recover. Until humanity begins taking more than it can replace. Across the Great Plains of nineteenth-century America, six young women are born among six different peoples. They do not know one another. They do not know why certain things seem clearer to them than to those around them, or why, as they grow older, they are drawn towards a place none of them has ever seen. When they finally meet, they discover that what each carries is only part of something greater. They become the Six. Their knowledge reveals the hidden connections between water, grass, animals and people—the delicate relationships that allow the land to endure what is taken from it and, given time, renew itself. But knowledge brings neither authority nor power. The Six cannot command their people, prevent war, halt expansion or force anyone to heed their warnings. And across the Plains, the demands are growing. Buffalo are killed in numbers that once seemed impossible. Traditional routes are closed. People and animals are forced onto land already struggling to recover. Railways, settlement, commerce and conflict bring pressures whose consequences travel far beyond the places where they begin. The Six can see the connections. They can warn. They can sometimes protect what remains. But understanding how balance is being lost does not mean they have the power to restore it. Set against the transformation of the American Great Plains, When Greed Has Consequences is a sweeping historical novel of survival, responsibility and consequence, following six women bound by an extraordinary inheritance and faced with an impossible question: What can knowledge accomplish when those who possess it have no power to make the world listen? Part of The Keepers Legacy, a seven-book series spanning generations, When Greed Has Consequences reveals another chapter in the history of the Keepers and the burden carried by those chosen to protect the balance between humanity and the natural world. Because balance does not require that nothing be taken. It requires that enough remains.
