A cross-dressing writer, a beautiful young man with one blue eye and one brown, a mother crouched on the beach in her nightdress . . . JoAnne Soper-Cook's tale transcends the bounds of nature.

Waterborne tells the stories of Stella Maris Goulding: the ones she broods upon, the ones she has forgotten, and the ones she will never know. Only as her mother is dying does she recognize the strange heritage passed down from her Scottish great-grandmother.