The Water's Fine centers the importance of friendship between women and grapples with the complicated nature of grief. Janice Coy builds a suspenseful novel with a satisfying payoff.

It's another glorious dive week aboard the Calypso, a luxury scuba-dive boat filled with avid divers, friends and families, excited to explore the deep waters of the Sea of Cortez when the worst thing possible happens- one of them vanishes.

Catalina Rodrigues is an experienced dive master aboard the boat, spending every moment possible in her beloved ocean She's successfully led hundreds of divers on underwater excursions until now.

Cleared of any wrongdoing in the devastating tragedy for one of the families, Catalina returns home reeling from how she was blindsided by the divers she had been trusted to lead underwater. She struggles to forgive herself for her responsibility in the accident, to adjust to life on land after living on a dive boat and traveling the world for so many years. She hides the catastrophic event from her parents doing her best to move forward with her life. She's always loved the ocean, but now, she's certain she will never dive below it's surface again.

Meanwhile, Bertie Clark, one of the vacationing divers, befriends Catalina and offers her support while Catalina works through her grief. Back in Michigan, Bertie grapples with her own family dynamics; can she ever break free of how her family has functioned since her childhood? What will it take for them to accept that she has changed?

But someone else is not so forgiving about what happened aboard the Calypso and is determined to make Catalina and Bertie pay for their parts in the diver's disappearance.

Catalina might have been unaware of the events leading up to the diver's death, but can she figure out the threatening clues this time before Bertie, her new-found friend, suffers the same fate?

Janice Coy is certified as an advanced scuba diver. She brings her own experience on a scuba live-aboard to this novel. She is the author of numerous well-received women's fiction books. Her books are stand-alone entertainment, easy to read and hard to put down. Her work also appears in multiple anthologies.

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