On the Lookout

Sissy Soletario is twelve years old. She has a horse she has not yet named, a law school enrollment, a guardian who teaches Pilates, and a man living in the house who used to be someone else before the sea took him.

She has been on the lookout her whole life.

In Boulder, something is watching back.

A well-dressed man appears at Jen's studio asking questions. The government is building a regulatory framework that is not about standards. The treasure dispute is not resolved. And Ekim, who bobs in pools and reads the backs of Lucky Charms boxes and fixes things, is getting closer to something he has not yet allowed himself to reach for.

Everything is almost settled.

The third book in the Pilates Trilogy is about what you find when you stop running. About a man who came back from the sea as someone simpler and better and is on his way to being both. About a girl who has been on the lookout her entire life and who is about to discover that the thing she was watching for was already here.

Then the door opens.

On the Lookout is about the specific quality of arriving somewhere after a long time of going somewhere. About a man who came back from the sea as someone the sea had simplified and improved. About a girl who sold treasure maps on beaches and found something worth more than treasure.

It ends at a door.

What is on the other side changes everything.