Fleeing to Thailand for a fresh start, young Mari finds joy lurking in the chaos.
When twenty‑two‑year‑old Marielle Margaux flees to Thailand after a cheating fiancé and a scandal at her charity job, she expects anonymity—not to be mistaken for a Western nun and handed the keys to a crumbling seaside hotel.
Suddenly responsible for a chaotic refuge for women and babies escaping Bangkok’s bar‑girl world, Mari finds herself juggling frightened mothers, hungry infants, suspicious villagers, and one dangerously earnest graduate student who keeps showing up at exactly the wrong moments.
As the accidental sanctuary grows, Mari must decide whether this improvised life is a disaster spiraling out of control… or the purpose she’s been running toward all along.
A funny, warm, cross‑cultural novel about reinvention, cultural misfires, identity, and the messy ways we end up saving one another.
