A missing child. A gift with rules. And one rule about to be broken.
Calla Marsh has spent twenty years learning to live with what she is. A cartographer by trade, she maps land for a living — and, quietly, finds what is lost in another way entirely. She is a remote viewer. Careful. Disciplined. Trusted by exactly one person, a search and rescue coordinator who never asks how she knows what she knows.
She has one unbreakable rule: no cases involving children. The rule exists because of her sister, who vanished twelve years ago — and because of the eight months Calla spent searching for her in the dark, and what those months cost.
Then a seven-year-old girl named Iris disappears from a school playing field three towns away. The temperature is dropping. The search teams are running out of light. And Iris's mother is someone Calla knows.
When Calla finally closes her eyes and looks, she finds a ruined barn, the smell of rust and rain — and something she has never encountered in twenty years of this work. The location won't hold still. The target keeps slipping. Almost as if the child on the other end is reaching back.
To find Iris in time, Calla will have to go deeper than her training allows, past every boundary she built to survive — and discover that seeing was only ever the beginning.
The fifth and final story in The Visible and the Invisible series — each one a standalone tale of an ordinary woman discovering that the world holds far more than the eye can see. For readers of Paulo Coelho, Richard Bach, and anyone who has ever sensed there is more.
Genre: Fantasy
Calla Marsh has spent twenty years learning to live with what she is. A cartographer by trade, she maps land for a living — and, quietly, finds what is lost in another way entirely. She is a remote viewer. Careful. Disciplined. Trusted by exactly one person, a search and rescue coordinator who never asks how she knows what she knows.
She has one unbreakable rule: no cases involving children. The rule exists because of her sister, who vanished twelve years ago — and because of the eight months Calla spent searching for her in the dark, and what those months cost.
Then a seven-year-old girl named Iris disappears from a school playing field three towns away. The temperature is dropping. The search teams are running out of light. And Iris's mother is someone Calla knows.
When Calla finally closes her eyes and looks, she finds a ruined barn, the smell of rust and rain — and something she has never encountered in twenty years of this work. The location won't hold still. The target keeps slipping. Almost as if the child on the other end is reaching back.
To find Iris in time, Calla will have to go deeper than her training allows, past every boundary she built to survive — and discover that seeing was only ever the beginning.
The fifth and final story in The Visible and the Invisible series — each one a standalone tale of an ordinary woman discovering that the world holds far more than the eye can see. For readers of Paulo Coelho, Richard Bach, and anyone who has ever sensed there is more.
Genre: Fantasy