The Last Ordinary Day
Coming Soon
Ryder Dale has spent his twenties perfecting the art of not becoming his father. No ambition. No direction. No sailing. While Charlie Dale crossed oceans alone and called it living, Ryder stayed close to shore, bartending in Ventura, surfing when the water was right, and keeping everything that mattered at arm’s length.
Charlie dies and leaves him the Beneteau.
Forty-two feet of white fiberglass. A logbook filled with routes Ryder never sailed. A father he never fully understood.
begins as an act of grief becomes something Ryder never expected: a Pacific crossing with his best friend Kelly, twenty-five hundred miles of open ocean, and the realization that the man he spent years resenting may have been preparing him for this all along. The ocean strips everything away eventually. Distraction. Resentment. The comforting illusion that ordinary days last forever.
Last Ordinary Day is a novel about fathers and sons, the friendships that hold us together when everything else breaks apart, and the moment a man finally stops drifting and decides who he wants to become.
Sometimes lessons arrive too late to say thank you. And ordinary days are ordinary, until they aren’t.
Because sometimes the hardest part of surviving
begins after the last ordinary day.