The Living Waters

When two painted-faced nobles take a guided raft trip on a muddy river, they expect to rough it for a few weeks before returning to their life of sheltered ease, but when mysterious swirls start appearing in the water even their seasoned guides get rattled.

The mystery of the swirls lures them on to seek the mythical wetlands known as the Living Waters. They discover a world beyond their imagining, but stranger still are the worlds they find inside their own minds as they are drawn deep into the troubles of this hidden place.

The Living Waters is a Sword-Free Fantasy novel featuring an ethereal love story, meditation magic, and an ancient book with cryptic marginalia.

Content warnings:

This story contains a scene that may be uncomfortable for readers with trypophobia. 

This book can be read as a standalone, as the first in a duology along with The Isle of a Thousand Worlds, or as the first in series along with The Isle of a Thousand Worlds, Unpainted, and The World Within.