This wasn’t what they’d had in mind…
Lee and Amanda Stetson had already lived a lifetime together in four years. Follow them through the next six years after the end of Scarecrow and Mrs. King, as they navigate the next chapter of their lives. From Washington to Berlin, through unspeakable tragedy and enormous triumph, they’ll learn that the best place to stand and rest will always be next to each other.
📖 Standing in the Dark
October-December 1987 · Complete
When intelligence operatives Lee Stetson and Amanda King got married in secret, it was supposed to be nothing more than a temporary measure. But then an unexpected tragedy strikes the nascent family.
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- Amanda: Break
- Lee: Not This
- Carrie: Counting
- Joe: Out of Time
- Lee: Making It
- Carrie: Worry
- Lee: Painkillers
- Billy: Ring of Truth
- Amanda: Fine
- Francine: Going South
- Lee: Frustration
- Amanda: Rusty
- Joe: Defiance
- Lee: Fighting Words
- Amanda: Connection
- Francine: Details
- Lee: Good Ideas
- Billy: Grateful
- Joe: Redux
- Carrie: Undercurrents
- Lee: Secrets
- Amanda: Developments
- Francine: Fouled
- Amanda: Out of Control
- Lee: Friendship
- Francine: Keeping Score
- Billy: Tough Love
- Carrie: Flight
- Joe: Timekeeping
- Amanda: Listening
- Lee: Decision
- Billy: Lasso
- Lee: Possibilities
- Amanda: Traditions
- Jamie: The Last Time
📖 All That Mattered
February-June 1988 · Complete
When a case pushes the Agency into unfamiliar territory, Lee and Amanda Stetson do what they’ve always done: they adapt. They fight. They endure. But this time, that may not be enough.
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🔒 A New Horizon
June-October 1988 · In Progress
After surviving the collapse of everything they’d held familiar, Lee and Amanda Stetson are deployed to London for a fresh start. Instead, they find themselves rebuilding from the inside out.
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🌱 Keeping Watch
December 1988-May 1989 · Under Development
Amidst politics, competing narratives, and startling discoveries, Lee and Amanda find themselves questioning how they can remain vigilant without resolution and responsible without answers.
🌱 This Nightmare
November-December 1989 · Under Development
The fall of the Berlin Wall coincides with betrayal, upheaval, and personal losses that threaten to fracture the Stetsons’ marriage. Old certainties are collapsing faster than new ones can form.
🌱 Closer Than it Seems
January-June 1990 · Under Development
While caught up in the work of rebuilding and continuing their lives, Lee and Amanda discover that the latest geopolitical danger has literally arrived at their very doorstep.
🌱 Calling Our Name
August-December 1990 · Under Development
Operational secrecy itself is revealed as a source of unacceptable harm, as Lee and Amanda learn that trust requires boundaries alongside endurance.
🌱 Don’t Look Away
May-October 1992 · Under Development
Lee and Amanda confront the moral costs of witnessing without intervention, reckoning with what attention itself demands and where they plan to stand in the future.
🌱 The Right Spot
April-June 1993 · Under Development
As the post-Cold War intelligence landscape narrows, Lee and Amanda seek to define whether home is a place, a mindset, or something else entirely.