Tsantsa

Meg looked about. The cloud forest had enfolded her as a blossom closes with the coming of night...In the undergrowth to her side a large spotted form moved cautiously in harmony with Meg. Oddly she felt a sense of calm. Slowly Meg walked toward it. Come to me it said. Let me show you all that the forest has to offer. Wampang will help. A giant blue butterfly appeared at her shoulder and whispered in her ear. Wait Meg said as it flew away. What were you saying? I almost understood. It is Niawa the jaguar a human voice said and Meg started. Wampang was trying to tell you that you should be careful with jaguars. They rule the forest. Meg OConnell a single mom with a rebellious teenage daughter is suddenly snatched from her comfortable suburban life drawn to the Peruvian Amazon by a quest she could never have imagined the search for her sisters head. In a rattling peque-peque chugging up a muddy river Meg will find the only person who can possibly help her an anguished gun-toting Jesuit priest who barely clings to the basic tenets of the Catholic faith. Together they will discover much more than either had ever intended.