The Warm Planet

Even a vanished world leaves a gravity you can't escape.

Tulsa grew up on her own warm planet-a world dreamed into being by her famous aunt, the controversial writer Paola Wakefield, and kept in orbit by a circle of unforgettable characters. At the center of that radiant universe was Max, the boy who wandered into her life one afternoon while she was acting out a scene of imagination-and somehow never left.

It was a childhood bright with imagination, delicious freedom, and starlit possibility. Then, just at the threshold of womanhood, disaster struck, and everything she loved collapsed. Certain her world was gone forever, Tulsa fled-only to find herself adrift in a turbulent galaxy called adulthood, stripped of the wonder that once came as naturally as breathing.

Eight years later, the unexpected inheritance of her aunt's Victorian mansion pulls her back to the planet she thought had vanished. Its rooms are still fragrant with memory, its shadows heavy with all that has faded and died. She tells herself there's nothing here worth finding-yet, like a hidden planet still in its orbit, the past waits... quietly turning in the dark, its gravity compelling, lush with unforeseen surprises. 

For readers drawn to warm, nostalgic tales rich with imagination, The Warm Planet is a tender meditation on love, belonging, independence, and the quiet gravity of second chances.