The Cenote

When headstrong island girl Sandpiper is married off to Lark, the awkward second son of a mainland chief, she hides a devastating secret behind a vow of silence. But her new village guards a darker secret: a water-filled sinkhole—the cenote—whose ghostly female voices seduce men to drown. As tragedy strikes and temptation calls, Sandpiper must confront her own divided heart to save the unlikely husband she has come to love. A lyrical, suspenseful fable about honesty, forgiveness, and what real love requires.

• A lush, exotic fable about the kind of love that begins after the wedding, not before—perfect for book clubs.
• A dual-narrator romance with a genuinely funny, endearing hero and a fierce, flawed heroine you'll root for.
• Part fantasy, part myth: a deadly cenote whose singing voices lure men to their deaths—and the woman brave enough to dive in.
• Clean content with real depth: temptation, grief, forgiveness, and a marriage worth fighting for.

“A bird cannot fly with only one wing. It must have two to get off the ground. You are one wing and I am the other. We depend on each other.”

Perfect for a reader who loves lyrical, allegorical fantasy-romance with a strong marriage theme and an exotic mythic setting—think fable-like literary fiction with clean content that rewards book-club discussion.