Karl Grier

Karl Grier is no ordinary boy. Raised amid the multilingual, sunstruck world of a tea plantation in colonial India, he seems from childhood to understand voices, animal cries, and hidden meanings long before he can fully speak, as if some secret faculty of "far-knowing" has awakened in him. His strange gift first alarms and fascinates those around him when he appears to know private conversations, distant events, and even a murderous plot against a planter, helping expose the conspiracy that becomes known as the Hutchinson Raid. As Karl grows, doctors, family, and skeptical observers struggle to explain a mind that seems to hover between genius and something beyond science. Sent to England for his safety, he carries his uncanny sensitivity with him, and on shipboard it flares again amid danger, rescue, and visions of things no one else can see. In London, that mystery widens when Maggie Hutchinson, bound to Karl by memory and feeling, discovers she shares a similar intuitive power—and that Constantine, a sinister figure from the past, is coming to murder Karl. Blending adventure, psychological suspense, romance, and pseudo-science, this tale follows the perilous consequences of extraordinary perception. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.