The heiress of water
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sandra Rodriquez Barron.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Rayo
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780061142819
Subjects: Toxins -- Therapeutic use -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Shells -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At 12, Monica Winters is forced to exchange her privileged life in El Salvador as the daughter of the beautiful and headstrong heiress (and amateur marine biologist) Alma Borrero Winters for a humdrum existence in Connecticut with her cuckolded father after unfaithful Alma and her lover are attacked by soldiers at a gathering place for Communist rebels. His body is recovered, but Alma is lost to the sea.