Handler’s Inventory — Book 5

The Waking Collection

Then someone he’s been looking for walks through the door.

A storage unit in Dubuque. Fourteen iron-sealed objects arranged in a pattern that hums. A folding chair. A journal filled with forty years of research, and what reads increasingly, like conversations. Tom Salk has been tracking the Buyer for four books. Now he’s standing in her workshop, reading her argument, and he can’t dismiss it. The objects respond to his presence. One of them goes quiet when Mo touches it, as if listening. Then someone he’s been looking for walks through the door, alive, clear-eyed, and not interested in being rescued. The fifth novel in the Handler’s Inventory series.