100% of your gift goes exactly where you intend it to go.
Your gift is sent directly through Amazon.
No organization in the middle. No hidden fees.
Just books delivered where they are needed most, abused women and children. Every copy you send goes straight from Amazon to a ministry, shelter, or safe home already serving women in crisis.
One book can be the moment she realizes she isn’t alone.
There are women living through violence, infidelity, pornography, manipulation, and control—
and they will never say a word.
They survive in silence, hiding bruises under makeup, fear behind kitchen windows, and heartbreak in the farthest corner of a church pew.
What it means to carry water.
A Water Bearer is an angel donor—a man or woman who chooses to intervene quietly and powerfully by giving a book that can save a life.
Not with speeches.
Not with programs.
Not with complicated systems.
Just one gift—one book—sent directly to a woman who is living in silence, coercion, or spiritual darkness.
Water Bearers answer a call that many people ignore: the call to reach the ones nobody sees.
Your $13.99 does not go into an organization’s pocket.
It does not get lost in layers of overhead.
It is not absorbed into marketing costs.
It becomes a BOOK placed in the hands of a woman who needs to see the truth of her life clearly before she can step toward freedom.
That is the movement.
That is the mission.
That is the heart of Water Bearers.
Water Bearers exists for one reason: to get Bones Beneath the Prairie into the hands of women who are trying to find their footing in the dark. Some are in shelters, some in church groups, some sitting alone at kitchen tables trying to make sense of what happened to them. They ask for the book; donors send it. No middleman, no money routed through me, no complications—just a clean line from giver to receiver. One story, sent directly to the woman who needs it most. -Roseann
Why your gift matters.
Because abuse thrives in silence—and truth breaks it.
There are women right now who have no language for what is happening in their homes.
Some think they are the problem.
Some believe God expects them to stay and endure.
Some don’t yet realize that what they’re living in is wrong, destructive, and deadly to the soul.
Most of these women will never walk into a shelter.
Most will never tell a friend.
Most will never call a hotline.
But they will read a book.
A book can slip past her defenses.
A book can sit beside her in the quiet hours.
A book can name what she cannot yet say.
A book can reveal the truth with compassion, clarity, and dignity.
This is why Water Bearers exists.
Your gift is not just a book.
It is a witness.
It is language.
It is light.
It is the first step toward a freedom she doesn’t yet believe she deserves.
You join Water Bearers because you want your giving to matter—immediately, tangibly, and without fog. When you select a request and ship books straight to a ministry or shelter, you place truth in a woman’s hands at the exact moment she needs it. That’s it. No noise. No red tape. Just impact. If you want to stand in the gap for someone who’s trying to survive her own story, this is the place to do it. -Roseann
Become a Water Bearer
STEP ONE: Ministries Request the Books
Women’s ministries, shelters, safe houses, and recovery programs submit a simple request for the number of books they need.
Each request is reviewed and added to the Water Bearers Needs List so donors can send copies directly to the women they serve.
No forms. No red tape. Just a clear path between need and provision.
STEP TWO: Donors Choose Where to Give
You choose a ministry from the list and send the books directly through Amazon.
Every copy goes from your cart to the doorstep of a woman who may be standing in her darkest hour.
No overhead. No middleman. No delays.
You decide where your gift goes, and Amazon handles the delivery.
STEP THREE: A Woman Receives Her First Light
Your gift places a story of survival—strength, truth, and hope—into the hands of a woman who has been surviving in silence.
Often it’s the whisper she needed to know she is not alone.
One book can be the first step toward the freedom she does not yet believe she deserves.
WE BELIEVE IN THIS PROJECT!
For every 10 books donated, the Ken and Roseann Mayer (Roseann’s the author) will gift 1 additional copy to the selected ministry.
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The Symbolic Meaning of a Water Bearer
1. Life-giver
Water is the elemental symbol of life. The one who carries it becomes an agent of life—someone who ensures others do not perish in their thirst, isolation, or wilderness.
2. Servant-leader
The position wasn’t glamorous. It was humble, backbreaking, necessary. Water bearers did the unseen labor that sustained entire families and travelers. Their strength was quiet, steady, unselfish.
3. Harbinger of change or destiny
In Biblical stories, water bearers often appear right before a turning point—new covenant, new relationship, new provision, new direction. They show up at thresholds.
4. Symbol of faithfulness
The task was repetitive and daily. No fanfare. Just faithfulness—step by step, jar by jar. This gives the role a spiritual weight: the steady carrying of what gives life to someone else.
5. Protector of the vulnerable
Because water bearers delivered sustenance, their presence often meant survival for the weary—strangers, widows, travelers, the broken, and the overlooked.
Water Bearers Movement
Angel Donors. A Simple Gift. A Lifeline That Reaches Where People Cannot.
There are women right now living in situations they cannot describe—spiritual manipulation, emotional coercion, financial control, psychological erosion. Many do not recognize the danger yet. Most are too isolated to ask for help. And almost none have someone in their daily life who can name what is happening to them with truth and grace.
A book can reach her when nothing else can.
A book can speak what she cannot yet say.
A book can save her life.
Water Bearers are donors—men, women, families, anyone who feels the call to intervene quietly and powerfully by placing one book into the hands of a woman who desperately needs clarity, truth, and hope.
For $13.99, a donor can send Bones Beneath the Prairie directly into the life of a woman who may be drowning in silence.
No middleman.
No red tape.
No overhead.
Just one gift sent straight into her darkness.
A Water Bearer isn’t defined by gender—
a Water Bearer is defined by courage.
A Water Bearer is the person who quietly says through their giving:
“You matter. You are not lost. Here is truth. Here is light. Here is the beginning of your freedom.”
Every donated book becomes a lantern.
Every donor becomes a life-saver.
Every gift creates a fault line in the darkness.
This is the Water Bearers Movement:
one donor, one book, one life at a time.
Send Books
When you choose a ministry and send books directly through Amazon, you become part of the moment a woman finally understands she is not alone. One book—sent quietly, without fanfare—becomes the first safe language she receives for what she has endured.
No red tape. No overhead. No waiting.
Just the right story reaching the right woman at exactly the right time.
Become a Water Bearer
A Water Bearer is an angel donor—someone who chooses to intervene quietly and powerfully by placing story-light into the hands of women who are living through crisis, coercion, abandonment, or spiritual darkness.
Your gift ensures ministries never wait for help.
Your generosity becomes the steady stream of books reaching women who have no words yet for their pain—but will find them in yours.
The Book That Started the Movement
A Memoir of Narcissistic Abuse, Domestic Violence, and a Woman’s God-Led Return to Freedom
Bones Beneath the Prairie was never written to entertain—it was written because I could no longer stay silent.
It came out of the long ache of survival, out of the years when I had no language for what was happening to me, out of the quiet places where God kept nudging me to tell the truth so another woman would know she wasn’t losing her mind.
This book is the witness I never had when I was drowning—page after page of ground-level honesty, the kind that refuses to dress up trauma with tidy answers or polite Christian phrasing.
It shows what silence costs.
It shows what survival asks of a woman.
And it shows how God can gather the shards of a life and breathe something new through them.
Women read it and say, “I saw myself on those pages.”
They read it and whisper, “I’m not crazy… I’m not alone.”
They read it and understand—sometimes for the first time—that the way out begins with naming what really happened.
This story has become a lantern for thousands of women who are still in the dark.
And it is the heartbeat of the Water Bearers movement, because every woman who picks up this book and sees her own story reflected back begins to walk toward light.
That’s why the book matters.
Not because it’s mine.
But because when a survivor hears truth spoken without fear, something inside her begins to live again.
