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<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. <b>The Heiress of Water</b> is a stunning parable of paradise lost and found.</p>

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Author

Sandra Rodriguez Barron

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061142819

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Drama, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.56 / 5 (174 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14