The Woman Who Came Back Wrong

Eighteen years ago, Evelyn Rusk vanished inside the Briar Hollow Museum of the Unseen.

She did not die.

She crossed.

Now she has come back - pale, precise, and carrying something structural inside her chest.

At first, the changes are subtle. Objects lean toward her. Shadows hesitate before obeying light. The museum hum deepens at night, as though its beams are under stress. Rowan Rusk wants to believe her mother is whole. Clay fears the opposite. Maeve begins measuring air pressure drops no one...