The Atlas of Elsewhere

Elsie Vine has spent twenty-three years as the quiet librarian of Millbrook, helping others find what they're looking for while never quite knowing what she seeks herself. Her life is carefully ordered, predictably safe, and slowly suffocating her dreams. Then she discovers an impossible book—an atlas filled with maps to places that can't exist but somehow feel more real than her own small world.

What begins as curiosity becomes a journey through realms where thoughts grow large enough to inhabit, where emotions reshape reality, and where memories ripen like fruit on impossible trees. Guided by a philosophical beetle named Minimus and haunted by letters to Kit—a childhood friend who may or may not have been real—Elsie must choose between the safety of her careful life and the uncertain beauty of becoming who she was always meant to be.

But the greatest magic isn't found in impossible realms. It's discovered in the courage to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary possibilities, to treat emotions as tools rather than weather, and to remember that it's never too late to author your own adventure.