Imagine learning that you were dead, that someone wearing your clothes, carrying your possessions, bearing your features, had been struck by a bus and killed.
Imagine your mother, already fragile from alcoholism and depression, having to identify your corpse, and trying to kill herself out of grief.
Now imagine that you’ve found a coin which can change your life with every flip. Imagine having the power to make things better or worse, but never knowing what the change will be until it’s too late.
Imagine, then, that with every wish granted by the coin, you end up in a different world, where people act in unfamiliar ways. Where the girl of your dreams is your girlfriend, where your best friend goes from geek to jock, where your mother is perfectly fine but doesn’t understand why you’re weirded out.
Ephraim Scott has just experienced all of those things, and now he’s worried that he may never return to the world he called home….
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