The Fountain: A Novel

Vera Van Valkenburgh hasn't returned home in one hundred and eighty-eight years. Now forever twenty-six and able to heal from any wound, she comes back to the Catskills, searching for the source of her family's immortality. If she can uncover what made them immortal, perhaps she can reverse it. After nearly two centuries of unnoticed, meaningless lives and a traumatic incident in the desert, she desperately wants to be released from her condition. Disguised as a newly arrived forest ranger, Vera integrates into the upstate community and discovers something troubling: a mysterious, well-funded company is aggressively purchasing local property at any price. When her brother, also immortal, arrives with a woman whose face is strangely familiar to Vera, her mission becomes complicated. She finds herself racing to uncover the cause of her immortality before someone else does. This novel blends the spectacular with the everyday, exploring what gives life meaning and how our understanding of our histories shapes and constrains us.