Saxon never expected a journey into the heart of the Amazon to change his life.

Traveling with his botanist sister Kaitlin and his adventurous young niece Rachel, he is searching for a remote jungle village rumored to possess extraordinary medicinal plants. Instead, he encounters Cian—a mysterious woman with a carved wooden leg, a razor-sharp mind, and a past as dangerous as the rainforest itself.

She speaks little.

She trusts no one.

And around her neck hangs an impossible object: a modern IBM computer modem that should not exist in the middle of the Amazon.

As the expedition ventures deeper into a world of hidden tribes, smugglers, poachers, ancient traditions, and breathtaking wilderness, Saxon discovers that survival depends less on strength than on trust—and that the greatest mysteries are not buried beneath the jungle canopy, but within the people traveling beside him.

Part sweeping adventure, part mystery, part romance, Cian is a richly imagined journey across one of Earth's last great frontiers.

Filled with unforgettable characters, humor, danger, and the quiet wonder that has become Charley Brindley's trademark, this is a novel about discovering that sometimes the wildest place on Earth is the human heart.