The Rainmaker

What if you could end poverty?

Bring food and water to a nation dying of hunger and thirst?

Could you handle the pressure of a million starving eyes?

Could you cope with the fame that followed?

Would you recognize the person you became?

Jacqueline Caldwell "JC" Macy has won the prestigious Sir Griffith Bascome Lawrence engineering competition. Her design could become the most game-changing development project Africa has ever seen -- or a huge fundraising scam.

Wary from the start, JC's adoring bestie and personal assistant, Mary Josephine "MJ" Byrne sees a confederacy of profiteers: lawyers, bankers, politicians, and celebrities, lined up to enrich themselves on the backs of the world's poor.

An American expat who left a promising career and fled an abusive father, MJ takes on the forces of hypocrisy -- "white saviors," the "Humanitarian-Industrial Complex," faux environmentalism, family dysfunction -- that are pushing her friend to the brink. Despite JC’s astonishing gifts, MJ may be the only person who truly cares about her.

A gripping story about the volatility of genius, the uncertainties of love, and the value of honest friends,

The Rain Maker is both an urgent proclamation, that we nurture our young adults, and a searing indictment, of a culture that too often destroys them.