Return to Water

 For thirty-two years, Linnea's mother kept her human. She never said why.Dr. Linnea Blackwood studies the ocean from the safe side of the glass — specimens sealed in jars, signals traced on a screen, salt water always kept behind a barrier. She has built a careful, solitary life out of distance, and distance is the one thing she has always been good at.Then her mother dies. At the graveside, a sh...