Glass artist Ethan Finn has spent years hiding from grief, guilt, and the impossible expectations of his father—a beloved local hero who died trying to rescue fishermen during a violent storm. After his father’s death, Ethan creates a series of life-sized glass sculptures and installs them on the isolated cliff above Gray Harbor. The locals call them the Watchers.
Then the impossible begins.
Visitors report seeing lost loved ones beside the sculptures. Others relive forgotten moments with startling clarity. At first, the town dismisses the visions as rumor or mass hysteria. But as more people experience them, Gray Harbor is overwhelmed by tourists seeking answers the Watchers might reveal.
Claire Bennett, a geophysicist investigating strange seismic activity beneath the coast, searches for a natural explanation. The geology offers tantalizing clues: fault pressure, quartz deposits, electromagnetic fields, and a phenomenon that appears to connect the physical world with human perception. But no scientific theory can explain what the Watchers reveal—or why they respond so powerfully to Ethan’s grief, anger, and longing.
As the town divides between fear and fascination, Trent Mitchell files a complaint with the Coastal Commission, forcing Ethan to remove the sculptures. Yet the deeper Ethan and Claire investigate, the more the Watchers seem connected to Ethan’s emotions—and to the devastating secret his father carried for decades.
With storms gathering over the Pacific, seismic activity building erratically, and the community turning against him, Ethan faces an impossible choice: dismantle the sculptures and lose the only path to the truth, or complete his project and risk the lives and sanity of everyone he loves.
Blending magical realism with psychological suspense, The Parallax Field explores memory, perception, forgiveness, and the invisible distances between those we love.
What if changing your perspective were the only way to discover the truth?
