Little, Brown and Company
November 2026
On Sale: November 10, 2026
Featuring: Esme Good
336 pages ISBN: 0316612057 EAN: 9780316612050 Kindle: B0GQYYPXJ4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Esme just wanted a bit of escapism. And now reality itself has gone wrong—an electrifying adventure for fans of The Midnight Library and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Esme Good is an unremarkable young woman working a dead‑end job in an unremarkable city. Her only escape is The Elsewheres: tiny potions that allow you to disappear for fifteen minutes into alternate versions of yourself. Sadly, these only confirm her suspicion that she is, in a cosmic sense, living her worst life.
Then, after a workplace incident that could have happened to anyone, Esme unintentionally becomes the most important person in this—or perhaps any—universe. We don't have time to get into exactly why this is, but to remedy it, Esme must find an uncharted land and fulfill a prophecy that has been on hold since the dawn of time.
She has spent her whole life trying not to become a main character. Now, a lot of things are about to happen to her: in fact, everything, and so much
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