Title: The Heiress of Water
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Toxins, Shells, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Therapeutic use, Fiction, sagas, Central america, fiction
LC classification: PS3602.A777545 H45 2005