The Oceanography of the Moon: A Novel

A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars. After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins Wisconsin farm. Here she found solace in caring for her extraordinary adoptive brother, exploring the surrounding wild nature, and gazing at the mystical moona private refuge in which she hides from her most painful memories. But ten years later, now twenty-one, Riley feels too confined by the protective walls shes erected around herself. When a stranger enters her familys remote world, Riley senses something hes hiding, a desire to escape that she understands well. Suffering from writers block, bestselling novelist Vaughn Orr has taken to the country roads when he happens upon the accommodating, if somewhat unusual, Mays family. Hes soon captivated by their eccentricitiesand especially by Riley and her quiet tenacity. In her, he recognizes a shared need to keep heartbreaking secrets buried. As the worst moments of their lives threaten to surface, Riley and Vaughn must find the courage to confront them if theyre to have any hope of a happy future. With the help of Rileys supportive family, a dash of everyday magic, and the healing power of nature, can the pair let go of the troubled pasts theyve clung to so tightly for so long?