The Jaguar Oracle

When Oracle, a jaguar from the Yucatán, journeys north in response to the prayer of the last jaguar in Texas, he sets in motion an extraordinary odyssey of friendship, courage, and rediscovery. One prophecy. One jaguar. The fate of a forgotten world. Guided by the memory of Eden and clues from the last jaguar's prayer, Oracle summons an unlikely band of animal companions—a clever raccoon, a steadfast horse, and a wise old toad—to help a lost boy named Miracle find his parents in a perilous world.

Swept far from one another, Oracle and his friends find themselves in a perilous and poetically charged realm stretching from the Brazos bottomlands to the Rio Grande borderlands, from well-ordered zoos to wildlife sanctuaries, and from high-tech ranches to high-end treehouses. Captive and cut off from all he loves, Oracle must recover lost secrets and rekindle the memory of Eden before the Valleys fate slips beyond saving.

Oracle the jaguar rises from the edge of death to seek the return of the long-lost jaguarundi—the shadow cat whose emergence will complete the animal kingdom’s calling. With Patch the raccoon, Plod the horse, Bog the toad, and the manchild Miracle, Oracle journeys through a poetically charged Rio Grande Valley where willows remember, turtles whisper, and green jays cry out with ancient joy.