An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that\u2019s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there\u2019s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying\u2014from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn\u2019t outrun. Cara\u2019s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.<\/p>\n

On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works\u2014and shamelessly flirts\u2014with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.<\/p>\n

But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelg\u00e4ngers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined\u2014and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• Black bisexual woman protagonist<\/li>\n
• Japanese WLW love interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Character with a history of physical and emotional abuse; racist and classist dystopian government; violence; drug abuse; on-page deaths<\/div>