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©2026
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418 pages : map ; 21 cm
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Jaimie Vane used to measure her life in concert halls and standing ovations. Now she measures it in symptoms. The chronic illness that ended her career as a cellist doesn't have a name or a cure--just a long list of things her body can't do anymore. When her wild child younger sister Sybil reinvents herself as a live-in staffer at an ultra-exclusive wellness retreat, Jaimie assumes it's another phase. Until her messages stop. Until the voucher arrives. Jaimie tells herself she's only there to find Sybil. Not to drink organic detox smoothies or pour herself onto canvas in art therapy. Not to lie in the mineral baths and bask in the curiously soothing black mud. Not to believe the guests and staff who say Saoghal changed their lives. But the longer she stays, the lighter her body feels. The quieter her pain becomes. The easier it is to forget what she was like before she got sick. Because the island doesn't merely cure the visitors who revel in the embrace of its rich, black mud...it ensnares them. And the ones who arrive broken don't always leave