Fateful Waters is the first book in the "Troubles in Love-Land series. Lexie is coerced into traveling with Melinda to meet her online Romeo. She turns up missing after a flash flood nearly claims her life. One mishap after another plague the two long time friends when they end up in the Texas Panhandle thousands of miles from their Ohio homes. Lexie battles several advisories and her attraction to a tall dark cowboy as she tries to extricate Melinda and herself from the clutches of the drought-stricken panhandle.