A Map of Heaven Preview: Prologue One

Prologue One
Two Months after Their Meeting in Paris
All the days ordained for me were written in your bookbefore one of them came to be.

–Psalm 139:16

He ran through the freezing rain, darting across the puddle-strewn street on the Lower West Side of Manhattan on a darkening night just on the cusp between spring and summer. He was late, and it was the opening of her exhibit. 
Two months after she'd vanished without a trace, he received an invitation in the mail.