This Week's Tarot Pull — and a peek inside The Missing Sister

Two of Swords

The Two of Swords shows up with crossed blades and a blindfold, and people tend to read it as conflict. But I think it's asking something more uncomfortable than that.

What decision are you sitting in the middle of right now — the one you haven't made yet, because making it means looking at something you're not sure you're ready to see?

The figure in this card isn't weak. She's holding both swords upright. She hasn't dropped them; she isn't walking away. The blindfold isn't defeat — it's a pause. A held breath. The moment before she has to choose.

I've been living with this card's energy for a while now, because it's running straight through the heart of The Missing Sister.

Every character in this book is sitting in the middle of their own Two of Swords moment. Sadie has just learned the truth about her family — and now she has to decide how much of herself to give to a world she didn't even know existed forty-eight hours ago.

Jack is training for a battle he can feel coming, but can't fully see yet. And Ethan — Ethan is making a dark choice with both eyes open, one that might be the most heartbreaking version of this card I've ever written.

The water behind the figure in this card is the thing I keep coming back to. Still on the surface, but deep. There's so much churning underneath that no one is talking about yet.

That's exactly where we are in Book Five.

If you've been waiting to start the series, the box set of Books 1–3 is the place to begin — and it's available on Kindle Unlimited. For those of you already in the thick of it with me: you'll want to make sure you've read through Book Four: The Risky Reunion, before The Missing Sister is published.

The Mac Paidin siblings are all moving, slowly, separately, in the dark. But they're moving.

More soon.

— Tracy