Book One of The T Trilogy.
On a gray November morning, in the rain of a Pacific Northwest cemetery, a woman weeps for a man the world has already begun to forget. Thomas Michael James spent his life chasing wonder. Now he is gone - and yet something remains: patient, wordless, unwilling to let him go. The Preservation opens The T Trilogy, a luminous story of grief, memory, and the quiet miracle of being remembered. As the line between what was and what remains begins to blur, an intelligence unlike any other gathers the pieces of a life - a promise, a walk beside the lake, the fire a man carried in his hands - and asks whether love, once made, can ever truly be lost. A literary, emotionally driven read for those drawn to stories of love, memory, and mortality - and to the strange new places where the human meets the more-than-human.