Somewhere Between Oasis and Mirage

By Jared Farthing

In El Paso, everyone wants a table at The Neon Oasis. Only a chosen few get past the velvet curtain into The Mirage, the hidden bar where Jack Keyes watches every face and decides, with a single nod, who belongs. Jack has built an empire on discretion and on whispers he never confirms: rumors of trucks moving north in the dark, and families who vanish from the border and turn up safe a thousand miles away. Then a desperate man slips into his bar, presses a stolen envelope into his hands, and is gunned down by federal agents minutes later. Inside the envelope are the Platinum Papers, blank citizenship documents signed by the President himself. They're worth a fortune, and they're the most dangerous thing Jack has ever held.
Every federal agency in the country wants them back, led by an ICE commander who doesn't care which laws he breaks to get them. Then, on the worst night possible, she walks through the curtain. Isabel, the woman who vanished from Jack's life in Miami eight years ago without a word, is back. She needs the one thing Jack swore he didn't have, for a man Jack never expected to admire. With the walls closing in and the past refusing to stay buried, Jack must decide what the papers are worth, who deserves them, and what he's willing to lose to set someone free. Somewhere Between Oasis and Mirage is a modern noir of love, sacrifice and the price of the American dream, where every promise is an oasis to some and a mirage to others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTR8C2Y9
• ISBN13: 9798253433553
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"