Kyna has a deep-seated (and well-earned) fear of the water. So when her
adoptive parents announce that they have rented a summer house on Lake
Champlain, she begs to be left behind for the summer. Alas, this is not
possible. Yet even at the lake Kyna does her best to avoid the water,
exploring instead the forests and hillsides, documenting them with her
camera. But when her new friend, Tylo, draws her into his quest for
strange water creatures, Kyna finds herself pulled into unexpected
discoveries--not only about the lake, but about her own strange
heritage.
A novel that pulses with a passion for nature and the natural world,
Water Steps is rich with love and loss, longing and renewal, a bit of
mystery and a touch of fantasy. With an extraordinary gift for dialect,
author A. LaFaye brings its rhythms to vivid life in this haunting
reading.