Eleanor Hollis-Morrow has spent her adult life making herself small.

At twenty-two, she lives alone in a second-floor walk-up, works contracts that require no face-to-face contact, and keeps a notebook she calls data rather than a journal because journals are for feelings. The green notebook is for what she picks up from the people around her: emotional signatures, physical impressions, fragments of knowledge that arrive without invitation and cannot be explained through any channel her world recognizes. She has been managing this ability her entire life. She is very good at managing it small.

Then a woman named Miriam Solano appears on the evening news, missing three days, and Eleanor feels something she has no clean word for: a compass needle engaging, pointing somewhere specific, carrying the kind of certainty that does not ask permission.

What follows is not the story Eleanor planned to live. It begins with a photograph held on a floor and a phone call to a non-emergency line. It becomes a partnership with a journalist named Petra Voss who does not believe in what Eleanor can do but cannot explain away what Eleanor finds. It expands into a pattern of disappearances spanning four counties, a network operating in the gaps between jurisdictions, and a window that is closing faster than any official investigation can move.

And at the center of everything, a question Eleanor has been answering wrong her entire life: the choice is not whether to use what she carries. The choice is what to do once she stops pretending she has one.

Hidden in Plain Sight is the third novel in Tim Trott’s Star Child series. Readers new to the series will find a complete story. Readers who have followed Cassidy Hollis and David Morrow from the beginning will understand, at last, who their daughter grew up to be.

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