Abstract:
Caritas Thaumaturge supplements an inadequate disability allowance by doing research for people too busy to do it themselves. Her days are structured and mostly solitary due to chronic pain and fatigue. The spectre of becoming homeless is always present.

One stormy day as she hurries to deliver research to a new client, she literally runs into a heart-stopping encounter with Nature and has a Near Death Experience. Caritas regains consciousness in the ICU fundamentally changed.

While exploring her extraordinary and evolving abilities, she finds new friends. Together, they take on present-day slavery in a town called Haven Lake.