The Thin Line: A Settlement Prequel

by Katharine Tree

This prequel to Katharine Tree's novel Dark and Deep follows Alexander Smith before he threw away the modern world to join The Settlement. Working as a blacksmith in 21st-century Glasgow, he finds himself educated, well employed, and involved with the beautiful solicitor Emily--but increasingly dissatisfied with the disconnection and materialism of the world around him, as well as with his own failure to find a meaningful, sustainable place in a life he's suited for--a life where strength matters, where reliance on others runs deep, and where he can't run away from problems. As his world unravels around him, it becomes clear that he must forge his own path into the past--or lose himself in the tides of the future.

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 23, 2014

About the author

Katharine Tree is currently a freelance novelist. She lives in the Puget Sound area with her husband, daughter, and a rumbly old grumblekitty. In a former life she earned degrees in biology, English literature, and linguistics and worked as an AI researcher as well as publishing academically in the fields of humor and computational linguistics. In her current life, when not writing, she gardens in the summer and knits in the winter.