Fifteen years ago, Angelina dreamed of a river she had never seen and a young man she had never met.
In the dream, they walked side by side along a fog-covered riverbank in another century, carrying wooden buckets through the cold morning mist. When Angelina awakens in her small Canadian bedroom, the dream lingers only as fragments - a voice, a face, a feeling of impossible familiarity.
She eventually leaves the memory behind, building a life for herself in Texas where she opens a tattoo studio and settles into adulthood. But one stormy evening, a man named Darien walks through the shop doors, and Angelina's world quietly shifts beneath her feet.
Though years and lifetimes seem to separate them, something about Darien feels deeply familiar -as though some forgotten part of her has known him forever.
As their friendship grows, Angelina and Darien begin uncovering strange echoes between their lives: shared dreams, unexplainable recognition, and the haunting sense that certain souls are destined to find one another again and again.
Atmospheric, tender, and deeply human, The River Between Lives is a literary novella about memory, connection, and the mysterious ways people can belong to one another beyond explanation.