A Map of Heaven Preview: Prologue One

Prologue One

Two Months after Their Meeting in Paris

All the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

–Psalm 139:16

He ran through the freezing rain, darting across the puddle-strewn street on the Lower West Side of Manhattan on a darkening night just on the cusp between spring and summer. He was late, and it was the opening of her exhibit. 

Two months after she'd vanished without a trace, he received an invitation in the mail.