A dream, a son, and the God I wasn't looking for.
Daniel Carvalho thought he had built the life he had always wanted: a successful career, financial security, and a beautiful family. Then his marriage collapsed, his young son moved three thousand miles away, and the future he'd spent years planning disappeared. Suddenly, the company he'd always dreamed of joining became more than a career opportunity—it became his only chance to remain close to the person he loved most.
Alone in Key West after countless sleepless nights, Daniel survives until sunrise. He sits down to write the cover letter he hopes will change his life. Instead, he slips into a trance he can't explain. What begins as a job application becomes the defining work of his life, setting in motion an unraveling that shatters everything he believed about success, purpose, and who he is.
What waits on the other side of that collapse is not the future he imagined, but something far greater: a new understanding of happiness, a path back to the people he loves, and a faith he thought he'd lost.
Inspired by true events, The Department of Happiness is a novel about surrendering control, finding meaning in suffering, and discovering that grace often finds us when we least expect it.
"Grace often finds us when we least expect it." — The Department of Happiness
