A Neglected Dam, A Forbidden Love, a Doomed Valley!A fateful tale of young lovers, tragic neglect, and a town doomed to extinction."Swept Away" takes place the weekend of the tragic Johnstown Flood, America's worst disaster prior to 9/11. The novella is told from the eyes of Samuel Wulff, an immigrant teenage boy, and Abigail Walker, the affluent girl he secretly courts. Through them, we witness the terrible tragedy unfold, from the torrential rains of Memorial Day 1889, to the aging South Fork Dam, to the unstoppable, all-consuming wave of Lake Conemaugh.