Sea Reverie

Upmarket Literary Fiction
Approximately 88,000 words | 350–360 pages (currently in its final editing stages)

After witnessing her father's murder, seventeen-year-old surfer Alex Halbern inherits an unfinished manuscript that sends her on a journey through California's coastline, family secrets, and the world he left behind. As she retraces his footsteps, she discovers that finishing his story may require rewriting her own.

Set within the authentic surf culture of the early 1990s, Sea Reverie is a novel about grief, memory, family, and the lives we inherit. The ocean is more than a backdrop—it is a living force that shapes every choice, every loss, and every new beginning.

Written from my own experiences immersed in surf culture during the 1980s, Sea Reverie blends authentic surfing, travel, and literary storytelling into a novel about becoming.

For readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things, and the philosophical spirit of Hermann Hesse, Sea Reverie is the first novel in a planned series following women who discover the courage to create lives that are truly their own.