Mark Wilkerson is a 17-year guide at Hoover Dam and a 20+ year veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces, having served in the Air Force, Army, and National Guard. After becoming disabled in 2015, he turned to writing, inspired by the absence of modern fiction about Hoover Dam.Drawing on his passion for history and extensive research into the 1905 Colorado River ood, the 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, and the dam's construction in 1931, he began crafting a story that would span all three eras. What started as a short story evolved into a richly layered historical novella-its 13 chapters and three 13-year time jumps an unintentional but fitting symmetry. This is his debut work, honoring the remarkable achievements of those who came before the Greatest Generation.