Sofi in Paris

By: Amy Simone

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The boots did not belong in the Louvre. But for Sofi Reyes, a horse trainer from New Braunfels, Texas, her worn Western boots are essential to her logic. Sofi is an autistic person who navigates the world by calculating variables, leverage, and the friction coefficient of wet cobblestones. Now, she needs every tool she has.Sofi is in Paris because her husband, Hitch McClellan—a professor of antiquities who looks like George Clooney but talks like a textbook—has accepted a year-long museum appointment. Their Parisian dream is instantly derailed when the national treasure, Napoleon III's saddle, is swapped with a cheap fake. It’s a disaster of diplomatic proportions.Using her hyper-tuned senses, Sofi dives into the Parisian underworld, tracking the thieves by the smell of sulfur and river clay on a stirrup and the nonexistent driver on the shipping manifest.

The hunt takes her through the chaos of the Rue de Rivoli and into a high-society gala where she shuns a gown for a functionally superior tuxedo, leading to a confrontation with the powerful, predatory Countess De Vigny.When the Countess uses misdirection to divert the police, Sofi and Hitch realize the saddle isn't leaving the country on a plane. Instead, Hitch uses his academic genius and an archaic 1777 quarry map to uncover the true escape route: the miles of illegal, bone-filled tunnels beneath the city—the Paris Catacombs.Sofi, who needs a "kinetic ground" (or a desperate kiss with her handsome, oblivious husband) to manage the sensory overload in the city of the dead, must descend into the darkness to retrieve the artifact. She battles thieves with a unique blend of physical force and calculated physics, ultimately saving the saddle and Hitch's career.But the adventure exposes a vulnerability in Sofi’s own life as a horse whisperer, leading her to seek instruction in French classical dressage under a legendary Olympic trainer. To truly master her craft, she must dismantle her chaotic, instinctual methods and learn to find the "Zero Point"—the silence in the saddle.

Follow Sofi's exhilarating journey as she solves an international art theft and begins the deeper quest to fix herself.