The Light She Seeks

Her Christmas wish could change the balance between darkness and light…

Carey is her father's morning star—not because he loves her, but because he recognizes what she is capable of. Carey can sense emotion… and then compel it. A smile. A whisper. A choice that was never truly a choice at all. It's an ability her ambitious father intends to hone, wield, and someday use to bend a nation's will.

Carey wants none of it.

Instead, she seeks the light—the rare goodness she can see in certain people she calls the good ones. Year after year, she finds it in the same unlikely place: a quiet Santa Claus at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh. The old man knows exactly what she is… and what she is asking to become.

But wishing to escape the darkness comes at a cost.

As Carey's abilities strengthen, so does her father's vision for her future. When she glimpses a boy at a high school football game—one of the Protectors, radiant with a light she has never seen before—Carey makes a dangerous choice. She offers her father a promise no Terror has ever made: access to the other side. A union powerful enough to change the world.

And then she does the unthinkable.

She runs toward the light. Because if the boy accepts her, Carey won't just belong somewhere at last. She'll prove that even a Terror can choose what she becomes.

Set against winter nights, glowing Christmas lights, and the fragile magic of the season, The Light She Seeks is a supernatural suspense story where faith, power, and choice collide—and one girl's Christmas wish could alter the balance between darkness and light forever.

What early readers are saying about T.J. Walden's new series:

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I was immediately hooked. The characters pulled me in so completely that I kept setting aside another highly anticipated thriller just to keep reading. This story stayed with me long after I closed the book—and I can't wait for what comes next."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The suspense is gripping, but it's the characters that truly stand out. A powerful, compelling start to a new world."