Where the Rivers Remember

di Catrina Turner (Autore)

Catrina Turner, 2026

Some wounds run deeper than memory. Some loves are older than the lives that carry them. SØREN ERIK VAN DIJK has spent his life listening to rivers — reading ghost channels buried beneath cities, decoding what the earth keeps hidden in its mud. A Dutch marine geologist from Utrecht, he is a quiet man shaped by enormous grief: his wife is three years gone, and the silence she left behind has become the landscape he lives in. When a research grant pulls him across the ocean to New York, he arrives carrying a small vial of Dutch soil he cannot explain — and dreams of an old man standing in rushing water, holding a lantern made of amber. ZARA CELESTINE BEAUMONT has always known the world is made of more than what the eye can hold. A jazz vocalist and grief counselor in Harlem, she carries the shimmer of something ancient at her wrists — a gold light that blazes in certain moments. Her lineage runs deep and layered: Yoruba ancestors brought through the Middle Passage, Taino-Arawak blood from the Caribbean, Creole roots from the kitchens of New Orleans. She has loved and been loved — but has always felt the pull of someone she could not name. When Søren and Zara meet at a Harlem dinner party, neither can explain the recognition that moves through them like a current. But the ancestors have been arranging this meeting for centuries. Across five books and an ancient mythic world spanning two continents, two spiritual cosmologies, and an infinite Ancestral Plane called The Weave, WHERE THE RIVERS REMEMBER traces the journey of two people who must each descend into the deepest wounds of their bloodlines before they can find each other fully. Søren must face the shadow of his 17th-century ancestor — a Dutch slave trader whose ship carried Zara's forebears across the ocean in chains. Zara must reclaim the silenced songs of every woman in her lineage who was told to make herself smaller. Together, they must survive trials of water, fire, and earth — guided by Yoruba Orishas, Frisian tide-keepers, and a trickster god who laughs at every crossroads. And from their union: twin children who carry the medicine of every wound their ancestors survived. Some loves are destined. Some are earned. The greatest ones are both.

• Autore: Catrina Turner
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Catrina Turner
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235140950