You Can't Return to Oz

He wrote the story.

Now he must survive it.

L. Frank Baum wakes in a desert with no memory, a splitting headache, and a single clue: the green-bound book clutched in his hand.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

A glowing doorway delivers him to a shattered castle where a grown-up and furious Dorothy Gale threatens him at knifepoint. Frank realizes the impossible truth—he's crossed into the world he created.

But this Oz isn't as Frank left it when he set down his pen. Glinda is missing, monsters stalk the land, and Dorothy's dearest friends have turned villains.

Oz is dying.

Even worse, the poison will soon push past Oz's desert border and corrupt the world Frank and the family he loves call home.

Frank must tear through the wreckage of his own imagination and rewrite the ending before this mutated final chapter closes on two worlds. Only by piecing together his shattered memories can he solve the mystery of how he arrived and discover who—or what—has twisted Oz into a nightmare.

A genre-bending blend of fantasy, mystery, and literary history, You Can't Return to Oz is a fractured fairy tale you've never seen the likes of: dark, sharp, and deadly. Fans of Alix E. Harrow and T. Kingfisher will love the twisted nostalgia and razor-edged magic of a story fighting back.