Saltwater Lapis

By Lizzie Parker

She had rebuilt herself into someone who didn't need rescuing. A demanding career. A house that finally felt like hers. Two teenagers who were okay. A hard-won, carefully ordered life - and not a single crack in it.

Then a message arrived from a man in Tel Aviv. And everything she thought she'd finished becoming came undone.
What begins as an unlikely connection across ten time zones becomes something neither of them planned for: a love that pulls Olivia halfway around the world and into a city that doesn't let you stay the same. Tel Aviv - ancient and electric, opinionated and alive - meets her at every turn. The Mediterranean at dusk. Shawarma eaten standing at the side of the road. Arak poured by strangers who become, somehow, hers. A place that feeds you without ceremony and asks nothing in return except that you show up.

This is the story of a woman who thought she already knew who she was. And a city that quietly, stubbornly, proved her wrong.

Part love story, part awakening - Saltwater Lapis is for anyone who has ever let a place rearrange them from the inside out. For anyone who thought the most transformative chapter of their life was already behind them.
It wasn't. It was just waiting in a city ten hours ahead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSW139GM
• ISBN13: 9798252393650
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"