When Erica gets a phone call to say her mother, Ione, is ill in St. Lucia, she knows she must go to her. Though the island–the place of her mother’s birth–is somewhere that Erica has never seen as her homeland. Even when the plane touches down in the tropical paradise, with its palm trees swaying in the island breeze, the sound of accents so like her mother’s own calling loud in the air, Erica doesn’t find herself wanting to stay a moment longer than she has to. But stepping into her mothe...

A DAUGHTER OF SANORA. A DISEASE WITHOUT CURE. AN ANCIENT POWER AWAKENING.Some truths are buried. Some refuse to stay that way.Tayo is raised on the Caribbean island of Sanora by her grandmother Ama-Si — a woman of ancestor worship and herbal wisdom, who lived on the food she grew. When Ama-Si is arrested for practising obeah and vanishes without a trace, Tayo's grief and visions of her grandmother are dismissed as madness. She is shipped off to Eng...