Yvonne (Theunissen) Leslie grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband and two children. Treading Water is her first novel.
Maggie discovers something in her daughter Abby's diary that gives her cause to worry -- and reason to hop on a plane to join them at their grandmother's in Nova Scotia. There, she runs into an old boyfriend who raises emotions and questions that Maggie hadn't thought about since she left more than 16 years ago. Abby too learns things about her mother, and both are pulled back to the past.