The Cypress at Harrington's Oasis: Book Three

Lou Stovall has lived at Harrington's Oasis since she was six years old.When her grandmother Etta brought her to the old central Florida property, the community quietly folded around them both. Lou has grown up in its kitchen and its grove, watched its residents become themselves over years, and always stopped at the edge of the cypress stand - thirty yards from the sinkhole's rim - understanding that some thresholds are not yet hers to cross.Now she is nineteen. Etta is gone. The woman who has kept the sinkhole for decades is slowing, and the practice she tends will need someone to receive it. Lou has filed this the way she files everything - directly, without looking away.But when a stranger arrives for the summer, formed by a life entirely different from anything Lou has known, something shifts.Not the practice. Not the property. Lou herself.For the first time, she can see the Oasis from the outside, and what she sees raises a question she has never thought to ask: Is she here because she belongs - or because she has never chosen anything else?The Cypress at Harrington's Oasis is a quiet, luminous novel about the difference between returning to a place and choosing it. Set against the humid greens and Spanish moss of the Florida scrub, it follows one young woman's movement toward a threshold that has been waiting for her - and through the one journey she has to make before she can cross it freely.The third novel in the Harrington's Oasis Series.

Pages: 235, Paperback, Independently published