The Vanishing Sky
In 1935, aviator Clara “Callie” Lindbergh vanished.
Eighty-nine years later, she comes back.
About the book
Book conservator Julian Vance has built his life around one certainty: the past can be preserved, but it cannot be changed.
Then Callie appears—unchanged—and the historical record begins changing with her.
Documents acquire words no one remembers writing. Official records contradict the evidence in Julian’s hands. And an investigation through the archives leads toward a bureaucracy determined to call the impossible a correction.
But history does not change cleanly. Every alteration leaves a cost somewhere else—and the closer Julian gets to the truth, the more dangerous Callie’s continued existence becomes.
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The Resonance Trilogy
The Vanishing Sky begins The Resonance Trilogy, a speculative mystery series about history, memory, and the consequences of changing what has already been recorded.
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