Novella
Tibet, 1938. Matthias Krüger was sent to watch the Reich’s most classified asset. He never expected her to see him.
A slow-burn historical romance about obsession, longing, and the cost of being seen.
4 stars on GoodreadsTibet, 1938. Matthias Krüger arrives at a remote monastery with orders to observe Leise, the sole surviving subject of the Reich's Wunderkinder programme. She can disappear from one place and reappear in another, making her both an extraordinary weapon and a person the regime intends to control.
Matthias records her in the language of official reports. His private journal tells a different story: of her defiance, his fascination, and his growing inability to think of her as an asset rather than a person.
An Index of Vanishing — Part I is a slow-burn historical romance novella about surveillance, complicity, longing, and the cost of truly seeing another person.