A new marvel that has women flocking to comedy clubs across the nation: the Showstopper. But amidst the war bond sales and factory shifts, something surprising has emerged, something Franny could never have expected. With the men of Chicago off fighting WWII on distant shores, Franny has watched the women of the city taking charge of the war effort. Theo wants the kind of authentic life that requires confronting past lies-specifically the steamy summer affair he and Jack kept buried like a secret beneath the floorboards of their marriages.Įxisting in the present and simultaneously in their shared past, in the richness of their memories and the way they once clung together, Jack and Theo struggle to reconcile the worlds they have built apart with their longing to be together-and the fear of being hurt all over again.įranny Steinberg knows there’s powerful magic in laughter. Seventeen years later, Jack’s and Theo’s worlds collide as they drop their sons off at Gwynns. Their time together at the elite Gwynns Academy changed them both, but it wasn’t until a chance encounter the summer after graduation that the tension between them became palpable- unbearable. Emanating wealth and icy perfection, Theo was everything Jack was not. In this first book of The Oreanam Trilogy, Piper’s adventures on Alteria have only just begun.įrom the moment Jack Gardner first laid eyes on Theodore Beaumont, he hated everything about him.

She’ll have to traverse a bridge crossing the cosmos, phase into people’s minds, and navigate a labyrinth of her worst fears, all before Valos has a chance to destroy her family once and for all. Piper then begins a wild journey through the stars, where she’s trained by her godmothers and her other-worldly uncle on how to use her gift to save the family she thought she’d lost. The only problem is that she never learned to use it, because her parents disappeared while on a mission to her mother’s home world when she was only twelve.īut then one day, just as she is beginning to fear she might never see them again, an ancient, shadow-wielding demon named Valos shows up at her high school and tempts her with the promise that he alone can help her find them. She’s a two-world child with a power called enarya, a soul magic that heals and protects. Piper Anderson is a lot of things-fat, queer, anxious, depressed-and the daughter of parents from two different planets.

Imperfect Illusions by Vanora Lawless