After the death of both her grandparents, Anna Lucia Garcia s life is turned completely upside down. Torn from the only home she has ever known, she is sent away from her ancestral land to attend an English college for young ladies in Madrid. Left behind is her mother, whose cold ambition begins to unfold. With no regard for history or legacy, she sells the family land centuries of cultivation and care erased in an instant. Anna is left heartbroken, lost, and without direction. With nowhere else to turn and no other family to rely on, she is faced with only one possibility: finding the father she has never met. A man who, according to her bitter and estranged mother, lives on a distant and peculiar shore. A place described as always wet, perpetually muddy, and teeming with perverse strangers. Anna is about to discover just how wrong her mother might be, and just how much strength she carries within her.