The Cassia Year

Margot Voss drives east until the city disappears into fog and there is nothing left but road, salt air, and the low murmur of an engine cooling in the cold. She has come to the coast to outrun a life that no longer fits, trading skyline for silence and strangers for a town where everyone seems to know each other's business. Almost immediately, the place pulls at her , and so does Elliot Thorne, a man as weathered and patient as the cliffs he tends, whose quiet intensity unsettles her in ways she did not come here to feel. As the months unfold into a full year, Margot finds herself woven into the lives of Dana Kessler, June Okafor, Ruth Calloway, Gerald Fisk, and Helen Thorne, each of them holding a piece of a puzzle she did not know she was solving. Friendships deepen into something Margot has no language for. Long-buried grief rises to meet her. And Elliot, who has waited longer than he will admit, becomes the center of a question she cannot keep answering with distance. When the year turns and the fog finally lifts, Margot must decide whether to return to the life she fled or step, at last, into the one that has been waiting for her on the other side of the glass.