First published 2026
Twenty years ago, Daphne and her three closest friends discovered something terrible. They were playing their childhood game, transformed into a mysterious RPG, when they accidentally tore open a rift into another dimension. The friends panicked and abandoned the game before Daphne could take her final turn. Now adults, Daphne, Ronan, Leonie, and Finn have spent two decades avoiding each other and the truth about what they unleashed. Their friendship shattered under the weight of betrayals and buried secrets. But the other dimension hasn't forgotten them. The debt from that unfinished game demands payment, and Daphne must finally face what she left incomplete. The four friends reunite, forced to confront both the supernatural consequences of their past and the painful fractures in their relationships. Daphne holds the key to closing what they opened, but completing her turn means risking everything they've built in the years since their last adventure ended in disaster.
Genres: fiction, drama, fantasy, supernatural, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, introspective, suspenseful
Tropes: buried-secrets, forced-proximity, found-family, reunion
400 pages · Hardcover · Tor Books
Content warnings: death