What if the person you’re trying to escape is you?

Eddie thought he had it all figured out. Husband. Father. Provider. Punchline machine.

And then, one day, his wife looks him dead in the eye and says, “I’ think I’m done.” No warning, no slow unravel—just a clean break. Like tearing off a limb.

Rather than facing the reality of it, Eddie runs.

To Rhodes. To the heat, to the sea, to somewhere—anywhere—else.

Armed with nothing but a week’s worth of regrets, a suitcase full of denial, and a knack for saying the wrong thing at the worst time, Eddie finds himself surrounded by strangers half his age, a sunset he doesn’t deserve, and a past he can’t outrun. As the days bleed into each other—and the lines blur between self-destruction and salvation—Eddie must confront the uncomfortable truth: what if the person you’re trying to escape is you?

Above the Waterline is a raw, gripping portrait of a man at war with himself. Through hypnotic prose and vivid sensory detail, the novel explores the pain of losing oneself—and the difficult, uncertain path to finding a way back.