The Oasis

 

On a path that appears from nowhere, in a place that exists between one breath and the next, broken souls find their way home.

 

Chloe has been counting the seconds in a locked closet for so long that numbers are the only thing she trusts. Joe has been running from the desert for years, his motorcycle the only companion that understands the need for escape. Carla wakes from a coma with no memory of how she arrived and every reason to fear the kindness of strangers. Marcus comes hunting for a story and finds instead the terrifying possibility that he might be wrong about everything.

 

They are strangers brought together by a golden hum and a porch light that never goes out. In the Oasis—a hidden community where the weather responds to emotion and flowers bloom under loving hands—they will discover that healing is not a destination but a direction. That broken things can be mended. That the greatest magic is not in the arrival, but in the slow, courageous, collective act of becoming whole.

 

But Marcus's refusal to trust threatens everything. As his skepticism manifests as a personal storm that wilts the garden and isolates him from the community, the others must decide whether to keep reaching for a man who doesn't want to be found.

The Oasis is a hope-filled novel about the stories our bodies carry, the walls we build to protect ourselves, and the unexpected grace of being seen by people who refuse to give up on us. For readers who loved The House in the Cerulean Sea and Lessons in Chemistry, it is a reminder that sometimes the most extraordinary journey is the one that leads us home.