Waters of Life: an Inland Sea novel

The Wasting, a dangerous hereditary disease, has cursed the members of a small northern family for generations. After their mother fell to the disease, watching her brother die from the same affliction, Keyt decides it is finally time to take action, to find a cure and stop the Wasting once and for all. She is willing to follow any lead, any legend, any hope there is to be found in order to save her brother Malec from the inevitable.

Her search leads her to information about a mysterious water source called the lifespring, reportedly able to cure all ailments, both magical and natural. Nobody knows precisely where the lifespring is located, or if it even exists outside of the legends, but Keyt is determined to find it in time to save her brother.

From the glacial peaks of the Ram Mountains to an oasis in the middle of the searing Fusite Desert to a set of dangerous subterranean caves outside of Ruschlack, she searches high and low, collecting samples of any water she finds in the hope that one of them contains what she needs to save the last of her family.

After life growing up in the beautifully rainy Pacific Northwest, Shanon L. Mayer tends to keep indoors, writing story after story, building vivid worlds on paper while her thoughts hold everything but images. She tends to look at everything in her world for inspiration - especially her collections of skulls, dragon statues, swords and knives, and pretty much anything that fits her eclectic, geeky-gothic lifestyle. When her busy life feels like too much, she can be found relaxing with a hot mug of tea and a documentary on anything from theoretical physics to deep ocean wildlife to the most famous heists the world has ever seen.