Dr. Adrian Cross has spent his career studying the way people think, lie, manipulate, and change. Now he's facing a question no diagnosis can answer: Can Nathaniel truly become someone different?

After an attempt to abduct Nathaniel leaves one attacker in custody, Cross begins interrogating Daniel Harker, a seasoned operative who seems increasingly willing to cooperate. His information checks out. His motives don't.

As Harker slowly earns access to the team, he takes an unexpected interest in Nathaniel and asks him the one question no one else has bothered to ask:

What was it like to lose the gift?

While Cross struggles to determine whether Nathaniel can be rehabilitated, a private conversation with The Teacher reveals something extraordinary. Centuries ago, The Teacher drank a mysterious liquid that permanently awakened the gift within him. He doesn't know where the substance originated or what it truly is.

But he knows where it is produced.

For Nathaniel, that could mean something once thought impossible: a chance to regain what he lost.

But someone else is already working to get close to him.

The attack wasn't a failure.

The prisoner wasn't captured by accident.

And the man behind it all doesn't possess the gift.

He wants it.

The Way In continues as Adrian Cross discovers that understanding manipulation doesn't necessarily protect you from it.

Some people want a second chance. Others are waiting to use it.

The Way In | Agent Carver

Someone has been cleaning up Meridian’s past.

Now Agent Thomas Carver intends to find out who.

With two captured contractors in custody, Carver finally has something the team has been missing: a living trail. The men were hired through separate networks, given limited information, and deliberately kept from knowing who was really directing them. But one mistake leads Carver to an Alexandria broker who may know more than he realizes.

Carver won't be investigating alone.

The Teacher has decided it's time to help.

Their uneasy partnership uncovers something far older than Meridian: Orison, a name The Teacher hoped never to hear again. Long before governments began studying the gift, some of those who possessed it believed they had the right to quietly shape history by influencing the minds of kings, generals, politicians, and anyone else standing in their way.

The deeper Carver digs, the more disturbing the pattern becomes.

Senator Rourke wasn't simply investigating Meridian. A mysterious woman named Nora Vale had been tracking people affected by the gift decades earlier, and her connection to Mara may be far more personal than anyone realizes.

Meanwhile, the people behind the assassinations aren't running from Carver's investigation.

They're watching it.

Guiding it.

And perhaps even waiting for Mara to become powerful enough to give them exactly what they need.

For the first time, the final word doesn't belong to The Teacher.

Someone else has been watching from the other side.

The Way In is a serialized consciousness thriller about an ancient ability, the people who have spent generations trying to control it, and the consequences of opening doors that were never meant to be found.

The Way In | Logan Reed

Someone is watching the team.

After the murder of Senator Rourke, Logan Reed is pulled away from the investigation at the senator's home and sent to locate retired military intelligence officer Marcus Bell, one of the last people to speak with Rourke before his death.

But Logan quickly realizes Bell isn't missing.

He's being hunted.

What begins as a search turns into a deadly counter-surveillance operation as Logan discovers multiple teams have been watching Bell's property. When the two men finally come face-to-face, Bell reveals that the people tying up Meridian's loose ends aren't part of a single organization. Different contractors. Different handlers. Different networks.

Someone is coordinating them from the shadows.

And they're eliminating anyone who can lead investigators to Selene Ward.

As Logan and Bell fight their way out, they uncover a revelation that changes the investigation: someone may have already found Selene, and Martin Voss made contact with her shortly before his death.

Back at the safe house, another question is waiting.

Nathaniel has lost his gift, but Logan isn't convinced that makes him useless. He may no longer be able to enter another person's consciousness, but he still knows more about the hidden world surrounding Meridian than almost anyone alive.

The team may need him.

The problem is figuring out how much freedom they're willing to give him.

The Way In is a serialized consciousness thriller about an ancient ability, the people who have spent generations trying to control it, and a team discovering that Meridian may have been only one piece of something much larger.