SPECULATIVE ADVENTURE

You Can Never Go Back

By Alan K. Peters

Every door should lead somewhere. Wren Calloway’s never lead back.

Fifth-grade teacher Keith Hadley likes his life predictable: the same classroom, the same coffee shop, the same hazelnut latte with an extra shot.

Then a mysterious red-haired woman in a tactical vest overhears him mutter four words to an audiobook:

You can never go back.

For Wren, they aren’t a figure of speech.

For eight years, walking through the wrong doorway has thrown her without warning across the world—and sometimes across time. Marrakech. Edinburgh. War zones. Empty cities. Places that shouldn’t exist. She never knows where the next door will take her, and no door has ever taken her home.

Keith should walk away.

Instead, he believes her.

Soon an ordinary schoolteacher is pulled into a hidden world of Doorwalkers, impossible rules, and a government program determined to turn the phenomenon into something humanity can control. But the more scientists force the doors open, the thinner reality becomes.

And when their experiment begins to tear the world apart, Keith and Wren may discover that getting home has less to do with where you came from than who is waiting for you on the other side.

Funny, heartfelt, and full of impossible journeys, You Can Never Go Back is a high-concept speculative adventure about friendship, found family, second chances, and what it really means to find your way home.

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