Miriam watches the people jostle their way below the windows
of her warehouse home, never thinking to look up at her as
she paints their faces. But Miriam's gift as an artist goes
beyond a mere recording of what is: Miriam paints their futures.
Only once was she wrong.
One woman doesn't match the future Miriam saw. The bright
girl was supposed to grow into a respected businesswoman.
Instead, Ione disappears nightly into the shadowed alley
next to the cathedral with the other prostitutes.
Then one night, while walking through the city fog, Miriam
finds Ione broken and beaten. Miriam is forced to open her
home to the stranger whose face she knows so well and open
her life to change she never could have foretold.
Women are missing some found floating in the river, some
never seen again.
The deacon from the cathedral is the first to help. Soon
Miriam s solicitor, Michael, aids her in rejoining society
so they might uncover the evil at work in the corrupt
city...and awakens feelings she had never considered before.
Finally engaged with the world she has so long observed,
finally stirred by love and friendship, Miriam realizes the
responsibility of her gifting. No longer can she just paint
what will be. She must now help Ione find the future she is
meant to have...and find her own along with it.