Friendship, courage, and destiny meet in this whimsical magic realism journey.
Oracle, a jaguar from the Yucatn, arrives in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas because a lost monarch butterfly tells him the story of the last jaguar there. Oracle remembers Eden and the original word Adam spoke to the first of his kind, but others in the Valley have forgotten their names-including Man himself. Oracle begins his quest of restoring the Valley from the perils of loss while searching for the Lonely Tree, the location of the prophetic prayer of the last jaguar from seventy years before. But the path to the Lonely Tree is part of the realm of Man and riddled with "ironthorn" fences. Can Oracle help the animals remember their names given by Adam? Will he become the new Lord of the Valley in answer to the last jaguar's prayer?
This poetic and hopeful tale about the mystical jaguar Oracle will stay in readers' hearts and provide clues for navigating life's complexities.