The Space Between Worlds

Cara can travel between alternate worlds because so many versions of her have died. The technology cannot send someone where their counterpart remains alive, making her precarious background unexpectedly valuable to an institution based in wealthy Wiley City. Her work promises security and eventual citizenship, though neither city life nor visits home quite resolve her sense of displacement. She also finds herself drawn to Dell, the reserved handler who guides her assignments. When another surviving Cara dies under suspicious circumstances, a new journey exposes secrets connecting the life she left with the one she is trying to build. The discovery threatens more than her fragile position, forcing her to question the system that has turned her survival into an asset.