A Visionary Midlife

Mel Bracewell's job at the Chicago Office of Paranormal Affairs usually involves looking backward. As a psychometric, she touches an object and experiences its past. But when she picks up a dead precog's sketchbook, the timeline violently flips. For the first time in her life, Mel isn't seeing a crime that has already happened. She's seeing an assassination that's going to happen. And the clock is ticking.

The target is an intake coordinator at a supernatural community center, and the assassin is a professional "cleaner" making sure a decades-old secret stays buried. But what starts as a race to prevent a murder becomes terrifyingly personal when Mel's adult son, Doug, begins having the exact same visions.

As Doug's latent magical abilities awaken, the timeline accelerates, turning a seventeen-day warning into a one-day deadline. With her PI boyfriend Aaron, her ghostly colleague Charlie, and her highly opinionated psychic cat Biscuit at her side, Mel must unravel a thirty-year-old conspiracy targeting the city's most vulnerable magical practitioners—one that leads directly to the unsolved death of Aaron's former partner.

Can Mel change the future before the killer strikes, or are some timelines written in stone?