In What World
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 11 Aug 2026
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- 34,99 zł
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- Pre-Order
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- 34,99 zł
Publisher Description
Two high school rivals begrudgingly reunite as adults to investigate the disappearance of their beloved former teacher, only to wind up traveling through a series of alternate realities together.
Total opposites, Marlowe Jenkins and Priscilla Covington-French hated each other in high school. Now in their thirties, Marlowe is barely scraping by while Priscilla is wildly successful. Their rivalry should be long dead, yet both women remain connected through their mutual mentor, drama teacher Dallas Winthrop. Their unending tension has nothing to do with the fact that they’ve kissed. More than once.
When Dallas goes missing, each woman believes she can figure out where he is. Except this is no ordinary disappearance. Dallas has found a way to explore alternate versions of reality. While trying to follow him, Marlowe and Priscilla find other versions of themselves instead, surprised to learn not all Marlowes and Priscillas are fueled by hate. In fact, some Marlowes and Priscillas have very different strong feelings for one another. . .
The more Marlowe and Priscilla are forced to rely on each other, the harder it becomes to ignore their simmering attraction. But with every alternate reality they search, they only get further from their real life and responsibilities. Do they play it safe and hide behind their rivalry, or take a chance on each other that could permanently change the world as they know it?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This cute sapphic rivals-to-lovers romance from Morrissey (Anywhere You Go) explores a multiverse of what-ifs to bring its protagonists back to one another. Life has gone in different directions for Marlowe Jenkins and Priscilla Covington-French in the 16 years since the drama class competition and occasional hate-filled kisses of their teen days: Priscilla has become the award-nominated star of a popular TV medical drama, while Marlowe assistant directs high school musicals. Then their shared theater mentor, Dallas Winthrop, disappears. His last act was to call Priscilla and tell her that he'd figured out "how to walk through universes." Both women are pulled into the mystery and together discover that the wooden "Memory Machine" Dallas has kept at the school theater all these years can actually take them to alternate timelines. As they search for Dallas across worlds, they encounter versions of themselves who have made different life choices, and begin to realize they can make a new choice about their own connection. The vagueness and haphazard execution of this conceit may grate on true sci-fi fans, but it succeeds in its role as the underpinning for a sweet, feel-good story of allowing oneself to get unstuck from old patterns. Morrissey does a nice job capturing the messy drama of queer theater kids, delivering a playful love letter to second chances. This charms.
