Heiress of Water

<p>When young Monica Winters Borrero loses her luminous mother in an accident at sea she is exiled from the tropical paradise that was her home. Grieving and cut off from a life among El Salvador's elite Monica and her American father move to Connecticut vowing never to look back.</p><p>Years later an intriguing stranger who has endured a terrible loss of his own enters Monica's life bearing an unusual request. Monica is propelled back to her lost world retracing the shadowy last days of her mother a marine scientist who had been on the brink of understanding the therapeutic applications of a rare venomous sea creature. Now her research is being corrupted by a secret clinic that claims the power to restore consciousness to the comatose.</p><p>What Monica discovers will shatter the family's delicate truce with the past and compel everyone involved to challenge their deepest notions of what it means to be alive. Atmospheric thought-provoking and timely. <em>The Heiress of Water</em> is a stunning parable of paradise lost and found.</p>