Böcker av Michelle Arnold

Some love stories are too big to fit into just one universe.Ari is eleven when she first hears voices seemingly coming from inside the wall of her house. Scared but inquisitive, she pulls back the baseboard and discovers a portal. She peeks through it to see her own family in a terrifying scene she knows can't be real. She quickly convinces herself she must have imagined it.Thirty years later, Ari is a middle-aged woman struggling with chronic illness, but married to the love of her life, her vibrant wife Mandira.One night she decides to share the secret she's kept all these years, telling Mandira about the other world she once imagined seeing in the wall and the different life she witnessed.Mandira's simple response changes everything: "What if it was real?"With her mind open to the possibility, Ari starts to hear the voices in the wall again, and this time when she investigates, she opens multiple portals showing alternate universes in which she and Mandira are living slightly - or completely - different lives.Mandira believes Ari has this gift for a reason and that they have a duty to bring their other selves together. Ari isn't so sure. Is it safe to interfere in other worlds? And if they physically venture through a portal, could they be cut off from their own world?As Ari grapples with her worsening disability, she works on honing her gift for reaching other worlds, with Mandira serving as her moral compass.But can a power like this ever truly be harnessed?

Five years after the events of Stay, Eva and Grace are happily married and raising their two small daughters, Tori and Nora. Tori, a lively, precocious four-year-old, has no idea she was fathered by a rapist, and her parents plan to keep it that way as long as practical. But when the parents of the deceased offender find out they have a biological grandchild, they sue for custody, sending Eva and Grace into a nightmarish legal battle that brings up terrible memories for Eva. As the two women fight to keep this potentially dangerous couple away from their child, a new threat emerges: Eva is being harassed online by an obsessive stranger.In the midst of the chaos, Eva and Grace work hard to keep their little family functioning and happy, but they are left wondering: is it possible to live out your dreams without the past haunting you?