The Water Fall

John Benumeane, a budding solar engineer whos just moved to Southern California, learns the hard way how cruel and unrelenting Mother Nature can be. Its the winter of 2004; an El Nio is back with a vengeance. A horrific weather-related accidenta car collision with a two-hundred-year-old eucalyptus treelands John in the hospital, where hell spend the next two years in a coma, locked in a struggle between life and death. He awakens in a different world than the one he left. Although he suffers no physical impairment from the terrible accident, he finds he has a supernatural power that slowly takes control of his life. His own impetuous behavior is rivaled only by that of his wifewho in her own bid to survive the lonely years without him, has reinvented herself in ways that defy description. The challenge for the two young lovers is to find common ground that will lead them back to the life they once knew. But that ground is elusive and unstable, prompting Johns wife to turn to Johns old college friend for helpand when she does, the plot thickens. By then a drought has gripped the Lower Forty-Eight and the real estate market is hyperventilating from reckless malfeasance, with Johns wife in the center of it all. The people she works for want to own John and the very special gift hes come to possess, but she has other ideas. Her story-within-a-story has twists and turns that will keep you guessing till the very end.