The Takamaka Key

The Takamaka Key

When investigative journalist Lira Voss travels to Mauritius to write a routine tourist piece about an ancient Takamaka tree and its legend, she expects superstition and local color-not a valley that does not appear on any map, an anchor fragment that returns to its branch when removed, and a voice that whispers You came back as if it has been waiting for her for generations. Drawn into a mystery that claimed her geologist grandfather in 1974 and her father years later, Lira...