The Interim

Fourteen-year-old Amy notices things other people miss.She notices when seven clocks in her school hallway lose the same minute. She notices when a reflection moves a fraction of a second too late. And she notices a boy no one else seems to remember.Following these impossible clues leads Amy into the Interim—a hidden network of unfinished realities existing between stories, moments, and worlds. Here, abandoned towns continue after their endings. Endless hotels rearrange themselves nightly. Lantern-lit orchards grow clocks instead of fruit. And every forgotten possibility still struggles to survive.There Amy meets Elior, a boy who should not exist.According to the Overseer, an ancient force tasked with preserving reality, Elior is a correction that was never completed—a continuation that should have been erased long ago. But the more Amy learns about the Interim and the countless worlds connected to it, the more she realizes that reality itself has been built upon countless unfinished stories.When the Overseer begins restoring order by permanently erasing unstable worlds, Amy is forced into an impossible choice. She can allow reality to become safe, orderly, and complete—or she can fight for the flawed, unfinished worlds that gave forgotten people a second chance to exist. Read more