The Echoes of Oakhaven: Oakhaven was the kind of town that seemed trapped in a perpetual amber glow, a place where time didn't flow so much as it circled back on itself. Nestled between the jagged cliffs of the Oregon coast and a forest so dense it felt prehistoric, the town consisted of one main street, a weathered pier, and exactly three hundred souls who prided themselves on knowing everything about everyone. For Julian, returning to Oakhaven after twelve years in the frantic pulse of Chicago felt like stepping into a dream he had tried very hard to forget. He stood on the porch of his grandfather’s old Victorian house, the salt air stinging his eyes and the smell of damp pine filling his lungs. The house was a skeleton of its former self, the white paint peeling like sunburnt skin, bu

