When a package from an antiquarian bookshop in Frankfurt, Germany, arrives in Dorset, Vermont, the recipient finds that it contains a mysterious note and rare book. Bound in vellum, the book is impressed with the image of a woman holding a chalice in her outstretched hands as she stands atop a rock near an unsheathed sword. Efforts to translate the book result in THE WELL THAT NEVER RUNS DRY, a timeless story full of life lessons for us all that is a companion to THE BOOK OF THE SHEPHERD.
THE WELL THAT NEVER RUNS DRY is a journey of discovery about the absolute value of love. The story that begins with the drowning death of a small child in the rain-swollen river. Left alone to care for the young boy David, after the shepherd, Joshua, has gone to resettle the victims of the flood, Elizabeth discovers the child's body and is plagued by age-old questions-Why do the righteous suffer? Why does God take children before their time? Why is the universe so cold, cruel and unfair? Does a man soweth as he reapeth?
A midwife and a healer, Elizabeth wonders how to help those who suffer in the furnace of affliction. As she drifts off to sleep, she hears a still small voice whisper in her ear, "Be still little one and know that I am."
Elizabeth sleeps and dreams of THE WELL THAT NEVER RUNS DRY. Together with young David, who has begun his studies to become a scribe, and her cousin, Miriam, a seamstress from the town beyond the hills, they go in search of the WELL. Enroute, they meet a cast of characters including the Story Teller, The Lamp Lighter and The Beggar Woman, who each impart a story and clues that lead to a Sacred Lake, a Sun Maze near a Stone Quarry where Elizabeth and the Shepherd join forces to bring forth secrets long buried.
