Synopsis
Every night for three years, Wren dreams of the same man dying.
She's watched him drown, burn, bleed out, fall. She's memorized his face down to every scar — scars she's seen form in real time. She's filled an entire sketchbook with his portrait. She doesn't know his name.
Then he moves into the cabin next door.
Cal is real. The scars match. The crooked smile she knows from Dream #23 is right there on his mouth. And the moment their fingers accidentally brush, she's pulled into a waking vision of his death so violent it leaves her with a nosebleed.
To be near him is safe. To touch him is to watch him die.
But proximity has a cost of its own. A parasitic entity called the Tether has been feeding on Cal since the night he flatlined on an operating table — and now it's building a bridge into Wren. The closer they get, the stronger it grows. Walking away might save her. Staying will almost certainly kill one of them.
Every previous case ended the same way: the Seer dies, or the Host dies, or both.
No one has ever tried the third option.
"That's the first future anyone's ever shown me that I wanted."
Chapters
1.1
Chapter 1 — 147 — Part 1 of 3
725 words
1.2
Chapter 1 — 147 — Part 2 of 3
725 words
1.3
Chapter 1 — 147 — Part 3 of 3
725 words
2.1
Chapter 2 — Closer — Part 1 of 3
692 words
2.2
Chapter 2 — Closer — Part 2 of 3
692 words
2.3
Chapter 2 — Closer — Part 3 of 3
692 words
3.1
Chapter 3 — Silence — Part 1 of 3
746 words
3.2
Chapter 3 — Silence — Part 2 of 3
746 words
3.3
Chapter 3 — Silence — Part 3 of 3
746 words
4.1
Chapter 4 — Contact — Part 1 of 3
1,005 words
4.2
Chapter 4 — Contact — Part 2 of 3
1,005 words
4.3
Chapter 4 — Contact — Part 3 of 3
1,005 words
5.1
Chapter 5 — The Liar — Part 1 of 3
809 words
5.2
Chapter 5 — The Liar — Part 2 of 3
809 words
5.3
Chapter 5 — The Liar — Part 3 of 3
809 words
6.1
Chapter 6 — Storm — Part 1 of 3
925 words
6.2
Chapter 6 — Storm — Part 2 of 3
925 words
6.3
Chapter 6 — Storm — Part 3 of 3
925 words
7.1
Chapter 7 — Almost — Part 1 of 3
951 words
7.2
Chapter 7 — Almost — Part 2 of 3
951 words
7.3
Chapter 7 — Almost — Part 3 of 3
951 words
8.1
Chapter 8 — The Accident — Part 1 of 3
979 words
8.2
Chapter 8 — The Accident — Part 2 of 3
979 words
8.3
Chapter 8 — The Accident — Part 3 of 3
979 words
9.1
Chapter 9 — Between — Part 1 of 3
989 words
9.2
Chapter 9 — Between — Part 2 of 3
989 words
9.3
Chapter 9 — Between — Part 3 of 3
989 words
10.1
Chapter 10 — Research — Part 1 of 3
752 words
10.2
Chapter 10 — Research — Part 2 of 3
752 words
10.3
Chapter 10 — Research — Part 3 of 3
752 words
11.1
Chapter 11 — Rules — Part 1 of 2
989 words
11.2
Chapter 11 — Rules — Part 2 of 2
989 words
12.1
Chapter 12 — Maren Knows — Part 1 of 2
914 words
12.2
Chapter 12 — Maren Knows — Part 2 of 2
914 words
13.1
Chapter 13 — Break — Part 1 of 3
1,267 words
13.2
Chapter 13 — Break — Part 2 of 3
1,267 words
13.3
Chapter 13 — Break — Part 3 of 3
1,267 words
14.1
Chapter 14 — After — Part 1 of 3
880 words
14.2
Chapter 14 — After — Part 2 of 3
880 words
14.3
Chapter 14 — After — Part 3 of 3
880 words
15.1
Chapter 15 — Normal — Part 1 of 3
976 words
15.2
Chapter 15 — Normal — Part 2 of 3
976 words
15.3
Chapter 15 — Normal — Part 3 of 3
976 words
16.1
Chapter 16 — The Phone Call — Part 1 of 3
939 words
16.2
Chapter 16 — The Phone Call — Part 2 of 3
939 words
16.3
Chapter 16 — The Phone Call — Part 3 of 3
939 words
17.1
Chapter 17 — Escalation — Part 1 of 3
1,215 words
17.2
Chapter 17 — Escalation — Part 2 of 3
1,215 words
17.3
Chapter 17 — Escalation — Part 3 of 3
1,215 words
18.1
Chapter 18 — Dr. Kovac — Part 1 of 3
941 words
18.2
Chapter 18 — Dr. Kovac — Part 2 of 3
941 words
18.3
Chapter 18 — Dr. Kovac — Part 3 of 3
941 words
19.1
Chapter 19 — Four Deaths — Part 1 of 3
1,158 words
19.2
Chapter 19 — Four Deaths — Part 2 of 3
1,158 words
19.3
Chapter 19 — Four Deaths — Part 3 of 3
1,158 words
20.1
Chapter 20 — Inheritance — Part 1 of 3
1,539 words
20.2
Chapter 20 — Inheritance — Part 2 of 3
1,539 words
20.3
Chapter 20 — Inheritance — Part 3 of 3
1,539 words
21.1
Chapter 21 — The Visitor — Part 1 of 3
925 words
21.2
Chapter 21 — The Visitor — Part 2 of 3
925 words
21.3
Chapter 21 — The Visitor — Part 3 of 3
925 words
22.1
Chapter 22 — First Word — Part 1 of 3
1,125 words
22.2
Chapter 22 — First Word — Part 2 of 3
1,125 words
22.3
Chapter 22 — First Word — Part 3 of 3
1,125 words
23.1
Chapter 1 — The Diary Page — Part 1 of 3
756 words
23.2
Chapter 1 — The Diary Page — Part 2 of 3
756 words
23.3
Chapter 1 — The Diary Page — Part 3 of 3
756 words
24.1
Chapter 2 — Training — Part 1 of 3
814 words
24.2
Chapter 2 — Training — Part 2 of 3
814 words
24.3
Chapter 2 — Training — Part 3 of 3
814 words
25.1
Chapter 3 — MINE — Part 1 of 2
967 words
25.2
Chapter 3 — MINE — Part 2 of 2
967 words
26.1
Chapter 4 — The Night Before — Part 1 of 3
718 words
26.2
Chapter 4 — The Night Before — Part 2 of 3
718 words
26.3
Chapter 4 — The Night Before — Part 3 of 3
718 words
27.1
Chapter 5 — Threshold — Part 1 of 2
691 words
27.2
Chapter 5 — Threshold — Part 2 of 2
691 words
28.1
Chapter 6 — The Offering — Part 1 of 2
820 words
28.2
Chapter 6 — The Offering — Part 2 of 2
820 words
29.1
Chapter 7 — Dormancy — Part 1 of 3
783 words
29.2
Chapter 7 — Dormancy — Part 2 of 3
783 words
29.3
Chapter 7 — Dormancy — Part 3 of 3
783 words
30.1
Chapter 8 — Day Twenty-Four — Part 1 of 3
682 words
30.2
Chapter 8 — Day Twenty-Four — Part 2 of 3
682 words
30.3
Chapter 8 — Day Twenty-Four — Part 3 of 3
682 words
31.1
Chapter 9 — The Door — Part 1 of 2
807 words
31.2
Chapter 9 — The Door — Part 2 of 2
807 words
32.1
Chapter 10 — New Normal — Part 1 of 2
519 words
32.2
Chapter 10 — New Normal — Part 2 of 2
519 words
33.1
Chapter 11 — Residual — Part 1 of 2
623 words
33.2
Chapter 11 — Residual — Part 2 of 2
623 words
34.1
Chapter 12 — The Distance — Part 1 of 2
685 words
34.2
Chapter 12 — The Distance — Part 2 of 2
685 words
35.1
Chapter 13 — The Truth — Part 1 of 2
777 words
35.2
Chapter 13 — The Truth — Part 2 of 2
777 words
36.1
Chapter 14 — The Reframe — Part 1 of 2
863 words
36.2
Chapter 14 — The Reframe — Part 2 of 2
863 words
37.1
Chapter 15 — The Drawing — Part 1 of 2
819 words
37.2
Chapter 15 — The Drawing — Part 2 of 2
819 words
38.1
Chapter 16 — Spring — Part 1 of 2
969 words
38.2
Chapter 16 — Spring — Part 2 of 2
969 words
39.1
Chapter 17 — The Scar — Part 1 of 2
879 words
39.2
Chapter 17 — The Scar — Part 2 of 2
879 words
40.1
Chapter 18 — The Box — Part 1 of 2
760 words
40.2
Chapter 18 — The Box — Part 2 of 2
760 words
41.1
Chapter 19 — Anniversary — Part 1 of 2
895 words
41.2
Chapter 19 — Anniversary — Part 2 of 2
895 words
42.1
Chapter 20 — The Girl — Part 1 of 2
733 words
42.2
Chapter 20 — The Girl — Part 2 of 2
733 words
43.1
Chapter 21 — The Passage — Part 1 of 2
910 words
43.2
Chapter 21 — The Passage — Part 2 of 2
910 words
44.1
Chapter 22 — The One Where He Lives — Part 1 of 2
951 words
44.2
Chapter 22 — The One Where He Lives — Part 2 of 2
951 words
45.1
Chapter 23 — Home — Part 1 of 3
715 words
45.2
Chapter 23 — Home — Part 2 of 3
715 words
45.3
Chapter 23 — Home — Part 3 of 3
715 words
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