Seer, Tyro, Fiend

by Kathryn Flatt

Seer - A psychic. Tyro - A beginner. Fiend - A diabolically cruel person. When a fledgling investigator asks Stefanie Durant to use her psychic ability to find a missing insurance beneficiary, she says “The Ken” does not work that way. Yet she cannot stop thinking about the teenaged girl who ran away from home and disappeared on the streets of Chicago ten years ago. Driven in part by a recent encounter with the researcher who tormented her when The Ken first emerged, Stefanie undertakes to hone and use it to find justice for the missing woman. Her efforts transform the pinpoint of light she sees in her visions into a guiding star that will lead her deeper into the mystery surrounding girl and the unknown fiend who made her flee. As the intricate web of secrets and deceptions begins to untangle, Stefanie’s visions portend danger as the fiend menaces people she loves. Can her vision lead her to identify the fiend before it destroys Stefanie’s life too?

294 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2013

About the author

A life-long resident of Illinois, Kathryn Flatt began writing short stories in junior high and high school and moved on to novella-length stories (handwritten), read mainly by family and friends. Her love of writing took a back seat to earning a living when she graduated high school and took a job as a typist in Chicago’s Loop. She and her husband of more than thirty years were married soon after, and together they moved around to several suburbs as they each pursued college degrees and careers.
Kathryn and her husband now reside in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. After a long career as a computer programmer, she decided to pursue her life’s dream of being a published novelist. The Dreamer Gambit was her first success in that endeavor, followed by six more novels with another in progress. She also dabbles in short stories and has twice received an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest for science fiction, plus a Semifinalist standing in 2011.
She is also a member of the Chicago Writers Association.