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The Lund Covenant: A Novel of the San Rafael Swell
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gill Lund has spent his life behind a camera, documenting other people's trouble from a safe distance. Then his father dies in Castle Dale, Utah, and the one story he can't shoot his way out of turns out to be his own.
He goes home for three days -- bury the man, settle the estate, leave. But his father, quiet and stubborn to the end, had been driving into the San Rafael Swell at odd hours, tending water caches hidden for desperate desert travelers. Small mercies, unmarked and unannounced. Until someone found them and destroyed them, methodically, with bleach and a serrated blade.
The evidence leads somewhere no one in town wants to look. And the more Gill asks, the more he understands that his father's silence wasn't indifference -- it was what speaking plainly had already cost the old man here. He kept doing the work anyway.
Gill knows how to document what happened. What he doesn't know is whether he's willing to become part of the story.
Set against the stark beauty of Utah's San Rafael Swell, The Lund Covenant is a literary novel of moral inheritance -- what we owe the dead, what we risk by staying, and what it costs to do quiet work in a loud world. For readers of Kent Haruf, Craig Johnson, and Claire Vaye Watkins.
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