In the river town of Igili, the old women say you can read a person's whole life in the way they are born. Amara comes in a thunderstorm, two months too soon, small enough to hold in one hand and already fighting for something larger than herself.

She should not have lived. But Amara carries an old hunger in her blood, a debt owed by the water that has run through her family for two hundred years, passed from mother to daughter alongside a secret no one will name.

Spanning generations and two bloodlines that meet at last in a single restless child, Restless Veins follows Amara from a glass box in a failing ward to the wards she will one day run as a doctor, determined to break an inheritance of silence, addiction, grief and to turn a curse into a cure.

Mythic and deeply human, this is a novel about what families hand down, what the water remembers, and how far a person born reaching will go to reach the sea.