Healing Waters

All I can say is "Wow!" What a deep, multi-layered, complex story! I can certainly see why it got the Women of Faith Novel of the Year award.

Lucia and Sonia are sisters, but are not much alike. Sonia is, and always has been, the "perfect" sister; her appearance, her family, and her career are envied by many. Lucia, the overweight sister who has a less than enviable family, has always been in Sonia's shadow. Then a crisis happens. Sonia is severely disfigured in a suspicious plane crash, and Lucia is called on to help out not only with Sonia, but also with Bethany, Sonia's six-year-old child. After Lucia moves in, she begins to realize that all is not what it seems in Sonia's household. Trying to manage Sonia's and Bethany's lives while trying to rebuild her marriage to Chip at the same time takes quite a toll on Lucia's on emotional well-being. Enter Dr. Sullivan Crisp. He helps Lucia to look deeply into herself while trying to pick up the pieces of his own life at the same time.

Add to this story a persistent FBI agent who is investigating the plane crash, a physical therapist who tries to help Sonia and at the same time befriend Lucia, Sonia and Lucia's alcoholic father, and Chip's drug problems, and Healing Waters becomes quite a story. As I said about Healing Stones, Healing Waters is like peeling an onion; there is layer after layer to this story and the reader will constantly be surprised at the many twists and turns. A dramatic kidnapping and a revelation about Crisp's late wife bring this story to its astounding conclusion.

This book is a must-read and I cannot recommend it enough!