Somewhere North of Tromsø

The blank night completed is not a failure. It is the record filled for another night.Elena Costa arrives above the Arctic Circle in late November, as the polar night begins. Her commission: a piece on the science of darkness. What she finds is Lars Anker Brekke, a senior aurora researcher who has maintained a continuous seventeen-year measurement record at a remote fjord-side station. The instruments have never been switched off.Lars does not wait for the aurora. He attends to the sky regardless of whether it comes. The blank nights - when nothing appears but the darkness and the stars - are as rigorously documented as the substorm nights. The blank record is the practice.Book Ten in the Elena Costa Series. Second chapter of the second collection: The Wall We Left Standing.Bonus: Listen to the original title song "No Light but This One" - composed and produced by Bruce Whitecorner. Listen on Apple Music