“I thought I was assessing an organization. I didn’t realize I was being assessed myself.”
At fifty-two, Dr. Tara Williams is trying to hold the shape of who she has become.
She used to believe in discipline. In careful management. In the kind of composure that survived eighteen years of a difficult marriage and still knew how to stand upright afterward.
Now she lands in Sarajevo for a three-week consulting assignment. Just another field assessment. Just another hotel room in another city.
But Sarajevo doesn’t feel ordinary.
The heat under her skin isn’t only menopause.
The dreams aren’t only dreams.
The man she keeps almost seeing at the edges of her vision isn’t quite a man.
The longer she stays, the harder it is to ignore what is waking up inside her, and why her mother spent the last years of her life being told she was losing her mind.
There is a privateer with eyes like deep water who has been alone for longer than her country has existed.
A Bosnian colleague who notices everything and decides, quietly, to stay.
A bone seal that appears on her windowsill while she sleeps.
And a city held inside a valley that has been waiting, in the way thin places wait, for someone exactly like her to finally arrive.
Tara came to Sarajevo to do a job.
Instead, she may have stepped into something that was always hers.
Because the women in her bloodline don’t survive what they inherit.
They become it.
The Thin Place is paranormal women’s fiction for readers who believe the most powerful chapter of a woman’s life might be the one she never saw coming.
✔️ Mature Heroine (52) ✔️ Fae Bloodline & Hidden Inheritance ✔️ Sarajevo & Bosnia Setting ✔️ Slow Burn Romance ✔️ Cursed Immortal Hero ✔️ Found Family & Female Friendship ✔️ Menopause Rep ✔️ Second Chance at Life ✔️ Intergenerational Trauma ✔️ Inherited Power ✔️ Diplomat / Consultant Heroine ✔️ Widow Recovery ✔️ Magical Realism ✔️ Female Legacy ✔️ Series HFN (Series HEA to come)
