The Gift Between Us

When fourteen-year-old Kate drifts toward a persuasive online movement that calls itself a family, her father Jack sees a wedge forming between them, one that threatens to take his daughter away forever. Grieving the wife who taught them to tell stories, Jack must find the words that won't push Kate away: to protect her, to remember her mother, and to pry open the soft, dangerous power of belief without breaking the fragile trust between them. Tender, urgent, and quietly furious, this novel follows one night in a bistro where memory, ideology, and love collide. Part intimate confession, part detective work of the heart, it is a father's plea to be heard and a daughter's search for belonging. For anyone who's ever feared losing a child to forces they barely understand, this is a story about conversation, courage, and the slow work of keeping a door open.