The Orphan of Torundi

To discover the truth, she must first uncover the lie ....

Orphaned as an infant, Sam is raised by a pharmaceutical research mission in the rainforest of Torundi. She wields a mean machete, makes soap from candlenuts and is a fairly astute amateur entomologist. You know, the normal stuff. But a month before her seventeenth birthday, she is exiled to an American boarding school in Penang, Malaysia.

Armed with little more than her unusual upbringing and church-lady clothes, Sam must contend wit...