Nefeli’s Water
This is a book about mothers and daughters, it is about legacy, learning to honour your truth and finding your voice. This is who you are.
Nefeli’s hair smokes and lifts in anger when she is provoked, villagers from Kakohorio (Bad village) believe that if you look into her piercing green eyes that she will damn you from here to eternity.
Nefeli holds the key to the most fertile land in the village and the mayor and priest know that water will change the parched fabric of Kakohorio forever. Water is bountiful on her land and the men steal it from Nefeli, the town begins to flourish.
Nefeli must find the courage to speak up and claim what is rightfully hers, but she lives in a language few understand, she can read subtle changes in the wind and hear the altered lilt in the chirp of a bird. Clematis flowers grow from her while she dreams, their faint scent cling to her like the past and it is there in her past where she will find the key to her future, she must unearth it’s secrets to help her fight for what is hers.
Will Angele the handsome new baker in town who is running away from a secret come to her rescue or will the miraculous properties of the water begin to reveal the truth?
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