When marine biologist Audrey Grey survives a deadly orca attack that claims her research partner, she believes her life can’t get any stranger—until she awakens on a tropical beach unlike any place on Earth.
In this realm called Merluma, the laws of evolution have taken a startling turn. Mythical creatures of lore and humans with extraordinary adaptations inhabit this parallel world, challenging Audrey’s scientific understanding. As she desperately searches for answers, she’s drawn to a mysterious figure, Sinto, who is strangely familiar.
Meanwhile, Audrey is drowning in grief, believing she caused Sinto’s death. When research ships vanish in the Pacific Ocean, she jumps at the chance to investigate—unaware the strange orange fungus spreading across the ocean floor is fiercely guarded by an other-worldly army.
As Sinto follows a lead from an unlikely source as to the whereabouts of his father, Audrey is exiled to her childhood island home where long-buried truths await. Their separate journeys lead to shocking revelations: a powerful rebel with sinister plans, a wobble between worlds that threatens everything, and a love that transcends death itself.
Swift As Wind is the breathtaking second installment in Lisa Cram’s Earth Stones Trilogy, where the stakes for control of Earth and Merluma ratchet higher.
-Lisa Tostberg
