The Wave of the Stars
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  • Parts 10
  • Time 1h 58m
Ongoing, First published May 21, 2020
Water unlike any other--rolling, frolicking, full of life. You'll know it when you're in it--The Wave teems with galaxies, shimmering in other-world splendor as you surf among its swell. As it tunnels around you, the embrace of pure happiness, utter delight...absolute bliss. 

This is the Wave Kanoa Esca has spent her life searching for: The Wave of the Stars. She grew up on coasts around the world, searching with her parents, searching with her relatives--trying to live up to the legends of her forefathers. The Wave was out there. She would find it. 

And where else to find the Wave but during a coastal storm? Kanoa, with all her passion, runs out to the water, only for the unthinkable to happen.

With her first love stripped from her, will Kanoa find the strength to push past her disappointment? Will Brennan, her husband, be faithful to her in the great pain and loss she faces?

The Wave of the Stars is a sad but heartwarming tale taking place on the Cali coast. The intensely emotional story is layered with grief, but swells with the undercurrent of Hope that humanity finds in dark times and places. How do we react when our dreams and goals are taken away? Do we discover there is always something greater and deeper to life, to our very existence, or do we give up and let the wave crash over us?
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