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Her mother was music. When she died, so did it. Grief is a tricky path to navigate, which is why Leora Walker chose to ignore it. Until one day, when it smacks her in the head. Literally. Upon finding a collection of her mother's music, Leora is transported to a set of new worlds, one for each song that plays. Joined by a comically cryptic magpie, she embarks on a journey through the unknown, unraveling pieces of her mother and pieces of herself along the way. A moonlit meadow. A wandering woods. A school where time does not exist. Leora hopes to find out what it all means.

Amanda Halewood thought she had it all—a loving husband, a beautiful son, and a lifetime of memories waiting to be made. But in one tragic moment, everything changed.

In a South Seattle house built on patience, Risha was raised to believe that if something was measured right and set true, it would hold. The daughter of immigrants from Kazakhstan, she learned the quiet discipline of her father’s trade—the steady work of leveling floors and mixing mortar. It was a reliable way to navigate the world, but it offered no blueprints for the restlessness of the heart. In the long, rainy years of adolescence, first love arrived without instruction.