SeaTree IV

Twenty-four years ago, a man had a dream he didn't understand. He promised to tell it. SeaTree IV is the fulfillment of that promise.

In this conclusion to the supernatural thriller saga set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, two stories run simultaneously toward the same ending.

Lucas Michaels - police chief, father, and the man who cannot look away from hard things - leads one final unsanctioned rescue mission deep into Saudi Arabia, racing to bring home children taken by one of the most ruthless trafficking networks operating today. He goes in with everything he has and comes home carrying something he doesn't yet have a name for.

While he's gone, his daughter Laura faces something no human being has ever faced. Seventy-five thousand years in the past, standing on a prehistoric slope above a valley that won't have a name for another seventy millennia, she confronts an ancient pride that has never once been told the truth about itself. She carries no army. She carries no weapon. She carries the clarity that eight years of preparation produced and the courage to speak what she sees plainly enough that it lands.

Between these two missions - one in the present and one in deep time - the secret beneath MacBride Mountain settles into what it was always going to become. And a young woman steps into the kind of leadership no one can hand you. The kind you grow into, one impossible truth at a time.

SeaTree IV is a story about fathers and daughters. About what we become and what we were made to be. About the distance between those two things and the grace that has been waiting, patiently, for us to close it.

Readers who finish this book and turn to the Author's Note will find something they didn't expect - the truth behind the story, and an invitation to the most important question any of us ever asks ourselves.

You don't start from what it was. You start from what it is.