A novel. Coming soon.
Rose Keller returns to the Pacific Northwest with a shattered leg and a past she cannot outrun. Once a dancer and striving choreographer crossing Europe in pursuit of her art, she now moves with crutches, carrying a secret that has reduced her life to a single, desperate fact: survival came at a cost she’s still calculating.
On an island in a remote cabin owned by an ex-lover whose politics have turned militant, she finds herself suspended between the relentless rain and the violent memories that rise to meet it. As old bonds resurface—a guilty stepfather, a roommate with her own quiet grief, and the looming, glacial presence of a giant boulder behind the cabin—Rose must confront what it means to come home when home is no longer a place of refuge, but the stage for a last desperate performance: the choreography of a life rebuilt from ruin.