For fifteen years, Wendy Evans has lived as a widow. Her husband Darin murdered by the Vatican, his consciousness preserved in a severed finger, their marriage reduced to moments of communion through the supernatural Gift that binds their family.

She has endured the impossible. Raised their son Leo alone. Survived her mother's murder. Watched Leo possessed by evil and fought to save him.

But endurance is not the same as living. And Wendy is done merely surviving.

Darin's consciousness can possess her body temporarily—inhabit her, experience physical sensation, be alive again for stolen hours. What began as comfort transforms into something deeper. What started as possession becomes courtship. And what they both want—what they're both willing to risk everything for—is permanence.

A consciousness merger. Two minds in one body. Forever.

It should be impossible. The Gift has rules. Boundaries. Patterns followed for generations.

But Wendy and Darin have never accepted impossibility before.

The cost will be steep. The merger will corrupt the Gift itself, breaking inheritance rules that have governed their family for centuries. Leo will lose the ability that connects him to his father. The Vatican, already hunting them, will have new reasons to fear what they've become.

And there's no guarantee the merger will even work.

But for a chance to hold Darin again. To be together, truly together, for whatever time remains—Wendy will risk anything.

*The Transparent Gift* is an intimate exploration of love beyond death, identity beyond gender, and the terrible beauty of choosing connection over safety. It's a story about two people who refuse to let death define the boundaries of their marriage, and the family that must adapt to something unprecedented.

Sometimes the greatest gift is the one you create yourself.

Even if it breaks all the rules.