The Bureau of Gentle Interventions has a taxonomy for the kinds of wounds that become Fractures. Five categories, three years of field work - distress, rupture, echo-bleed, recursive grief, testimony. They thought they had names for everything.
Then Eleanor Marsh finds them.
She was a flood relief archivist in 1967. She documented 214 survivors with precision and care and deliberately left herself out of every record she built. Now, fifty-seven years later, her vigil is still running - because no one has ever come to take the watch.
The team knows what the wound needs. What it needs is proof that the alternative exists. That a keeper can be kept. That someone is willing to say: I'm in the room. I'm not going anywhere.
The Vigil Keepers is the third book in The Fracture Agents series - a story about the people who hold everyone else's pain, and what happens when someone finally holds theirs.