Gathering Water

By: Regan Claire

When Della is handed a folder full of answers about her past on her 18th birthday, she never expected her life to change. Instead, she's pulled into an unimaginable world, and must navigate the rocky waters before a destiny she never wanted threatens the new life she's come to love.

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Della has learned to rely on herself, and only herself. She's grown comfortable with her solitude and can't wait to turn eighteen to advance out of the foster system that's held her captive her whole life. What she doesn't expect is a thin folder in the hands of her latest social worker to change her life. Inside is the name of her mother, the identity of her biological family and more questions than answers.

Della travels across country to claim the only pieces of her mother that still exist — a house and safe deposit box. What's inside the safe deposit box pulls Della into a whirlpool of unanswered questions and the house brings with it a family she has a hard time believing when they say they never knew she existed. With every day she spends in the first place she has ever called home, Della is faced with truths she can't avoid and the undeniable sense that there is more to her mother's story than they will tell.

As Della struggles to adapt to her new life, she is pulled into an unimaginable world —one on the brink of war — and it takes everything Della has not to drown in a destiny she didn't choose. Can she move past her anger and pain to save the people she's come to love, or will her enemies strike before Della has the chance to become the only weapon capable of destroying them?

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