text: The Waters Rising (Plague of Angels, #2) by Sheri S. Tepper - Risingshadow
  Acclaimed author Sheri S. Tepper returns with a stunning novel in which a dreadful, awesome, killing power is resurrected from the past... and only a dying woman, a child, and a man who has come to help them can prevent humanity's extinction
  In the west, the people of Norland live in small kingdoms, unaware that a hideous evil from ages past has been revived. Powers are being used. Curses are being laid... and the waters are rising as never before.
  As forests drown, swamps become lakes, and roads disappear, houses — whole towns — are hitched to teams of oxen and moved upward. Misery is compounded when the Sea King declares war. No ships may sail on the new, growing oceans, and refugees from sunken islands continue to arrive.
  About the Author :: Sheri S. Tepper
  Sheri Stewart Tepper (1929-2016) was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She was known for feminist science fiction, often with an ecofeminist slant.
  She was born Shirley Stewart Douglas near Littleton, Colorado. She has written under several pseudonyms, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.
  Stewart recalled she "spent ten years...working all kinds of different jobs" as a single mother of two. She wrote some poetry and children's stories as Sheri S. Eberhart. From 1962 to 1986, she worked for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, finally as Executive Director.
  By the mid-1980s, she was publishing science fiction novels, including The Revenants (1984), books of the ... (more)
  True Game series (King's Blood Four (1983), Necromancer Nine (1983), and Wizard's Eleven (1984)). Other related works followed throughout the decade, including two other trilogies. Later novels in the 1990s and 2000s followed often, including Beauty (1991), which won a Locus Award; Shadow's End (1994), Six Moon Dance (1998), Singer from the Sea (1999), The Visitor (2002), The Companions (2003), and The Margarets (2007).