The Window-Gazer

One moment Johnston’s wharf is there; the next, Professor Benis Hamilton Spence is alone in a “living, pulsing whiteness,” shivering on a keg. Then the fog parts—and someone is sitting on a keg that was empty a moment ago.

On Vancouver’s waterfront, the fog lifts just long enough to send Spence across the water in the Tillicum, a boat that hardly seems to deserve the name. A psychologist drawn by letters about primitive minds, he finds himself instead among Dr. Farr’s odd household—and face to face with Desire Farr, a cool, capable young woman who longs for a life beyond her father’s reach. Spence came seeking knowledge; he may have stumbled into a mystery neither letters nor reason can explain. What is waiting for him beyond the Narrows?

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