Gathering Water

She thought turning eighteen meant freedom. Instead, it unlocked a past she never knew existed.Della Doe has spent her life in the foster system, drifting from home to home with no real past and no clear future. But everything changes on her eighteenth birthday when she’s handed a single manila folder—the key to a mother she never knew, a family she never met, and an inheritance waiting for her on the distant shores of North Carolina.What begins as a search for answers leads her to the two things she’s always longed for: a home and a family. But the home is in ruins, the family is built on secrets, and something strange is happening to her. Water bends to her will, power surges beneath her skin, and the more she learns, the more she realizes she’s not just uncovering a hidden past—she’s awakening something inside herself.Turns out, the world her mother left behind is on the brink of war, and Della might be the only one who can stop it—if she can survive long enough to understand who she really is.