Trina's Tantilising Tidbits: Water From Stone by Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Water From Stone by Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan

Book Synopsis:

When it comes right down to it, what makes a family? Is it nature or nurture?

Prosecutor Jack Westfield has it all – a beautiful, loving wife, an exciting legal career, a child on the way. With so much going for him, his life is perfect. Until the morning of his biggest case yet. That day, Jack makes a mistake, one that costs him everything.

Artist Mar Delgado had it all – marriage to her childhood sweetheart, a successful career. She had never been happier, until the boat carrying her husband on a trip to dive with hammerhead sharks returns without him.

For four years, as his career tanks and his personal life is non-existent, Jack tries to make amends for his mistake the only way he can – by searching for and bringing home the child that was stolen from him.

Mar’s attempts at rebuilding her life after her husband’s death founder. She can no longer paint the coral reef paintings that she had been famous for because water terrifies her. She can no longer trust herself to love because the toll is too high. But then, in the most unexpected way, she is given a second chance.

Private Investigator Sy Colomanos has seen it all. Still, for him, finding the Westfield baby is personal. For years, he follows the kidnapper’s convoluted trail across the country searching for the one clue that will help bring young Mia home. When the trail dead ends at Mar’s door, however, all hell breaks loose as the question becomes, what makes a family

My Review:

I was given the chance to read review Water From Stone by the author, and what a terrific book it was.

Unfortunately my kindle version from Amazon completely stopped at 48% and after two downloads that were not successful, I had to stop.

I would so love to complete the story officially, unofficially I have worked out in my head how I would like it to carry out, so ill have to see if I am correct at a later date.

Jack Westfield had it all one minute, The perfect successful career the perfect wife, they were expecting their first child Mia, great apartment, nothing could be said against him.
He was a Legal Prosecutor, and a very good one at that.

But..........

On one fateful morning that all changes, Lindsey goes into labour, jack has forgotten to send the town car back for her and she takes a cab to the hospital, they unfortunately have a crash on the way, and Jack is forced into making the biggest decision of his life, saving Lindsey or Mia.

He knew Lindsey that well that he knew that if he asked her what she would of wanted she would of said save Mia, end of story.

So the decision was made......................and then she was kidnapped, and four year of jacks life goes by in the never ending search for his little Mia.

Mar comes into the story as a Foster Mother for Elizabeth, who has been abandoned by a woman druggy, who dies leaving Mia asleep beside her while she starts to rot after her complete drug overdose.

She is one lucky girl, Mar never knew Lizzie's background more than than she was abandoned, but after 3 years the bound between them makes them totally inseparable.

Mar just starts to rebuild her life after her husband was killed in shark infested waters and although the nightmares will take over her mind, body and soul, Lizzie is what holds her together, and gives her something to finally live for and to complete her dream of becoming once again a successful artist.

This for me is where the story ended, and like I said above I would of loved to of found out the ending, but I will revisit it another time.

4 stars from me

A little about the author:

I grew up in Puerto Rico during the 1970's when helicopter parents did not exist and when kids did a lot of the raising up of themselves.

We surfed, we swam, we scuba-dived and boated. We explored caves and rode natural slides carved through plunging mountainsides by tropical rain forest rivers. We slept to the rhythm of the waves meeting the shore just one hundred feet from our windows.

It was a crazy, wild, idyllic growing up.

Along my way, I have worked in the spa industry (as one of the first spa directors in the US, and as Ritz-Carlton's first) and find that that atmosphere suits me very well.

About seven years ago, I left the tropics, after 27-years in PR, and more in Mexico and Hawaii, and moved to New Hampshire to meet back up again with the man whom I dated all through college and who, but for two people who are too stubborn for their own good, would have married way back when.

A change of place allowed me to re-think my path. After finishing my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, I decided to take the opportunity of a new beginning to dedicate myself to my two (non-human or dog) loves: writing and painting.

I'd been selling my paintings for more than a decade before recognizing that I could pair them with stories to create "adult picture books," like my 2012-released book, The Complication of Sisters.

In 2011, I opened Madaket Lane Publishers, an independent boutique publishing agency where I can work one-on-one with authors and illustrators to bring distinct voices and compelling stories to life.

Though I miss the warmth and the sound of the sea, life is very, very good. I am reminded of the saying, "Happiness is not getting what you want, it is wanting what you've got." By that measure, I am the happiest woman on Earth.