What We Left in the Water: A Novel

The last thing Demi ever sent Isla was a voice note. Forty-three seconds. The last two are silence.Now Demi is gone. And her instructions were precise: bring them all back to the island. The same house. The same five people. The same ten days that changed everything, ten years ago.Isla hasn't spoken to Theo Vasquez in four years. She still knows how he takes his coffee. She knows exactly how he looks at her across a table. She knows she should have said something that last summer. Three pages, folded into quarters, carried in her pocket for a week. She didn't.Demi left a sealed letter. Theo knows something about it that he isn't saying. And somewhere in the Greek heat and jasmine and the ghost of who they all used to be, Isla is beginning to understand that Demi didn't bring them back here to grieve.She brought them back here to finish something.A dual-timeline literary romance about grief, silence, and the cost of the things we almost said. For readers of Normal People, One Day, and The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Pages: 117, Paperback, Independently published