Gifted

EVER SEEN A WALL TRY TO TIE ITSELF INTO A KNOT? Lynn Reid has, and that's not even the weirdest thing that's happened to her in the last ten minutes. Lynn's ability to see things outside human perception makes her the ideal candidate to join the multiverse police. However, after a bungled first mission and an unfortunate encounter with a basketful of anchovies, Lynn starts to wonder if she's really cut out for multiversal work. When she turns to her copy of the Field Agent's Manual for reassurance, she stumbles across a faded note that leads her to a cover-up spanning two decades and several worlds. Now, Lynn must work to uncover the damning secret behind the note before the next End of the World, Amen. Fragment: "A jump room was like a Code blender, or so Zack had described it after my first trans-dimensional jump, at least. I was still fuzzy on the particulars, mostly because I'd been too busy trying not to throw up after we'd materialized on the other side. Right now, we were about to jump to Santa Juanita. I looked forward to it about as much as N16 Europe had looked forward to the Spanish Plague. BEACON PLANTED, chimed an artificial voice that sounded far too cheerful for what was about to happen. JUMP IN FIVE… FOUR… THREE… I took a big breath. TWO… ONE… Here we g- HAVE A NICE DAY! The world turned upside-down, inside-out, and all kinds of wrong. I felt myself get pulled into the void and reasoned that, if hell was a thing, this was how people got to it. After forever, I opened one eye, then the other, and then I gulped in a breath of fresh, salty air. A chilly breeze ruffled my hair. The sky was a pale pink overhead and darkening towards the east, and murky water sloshed against a rocky beach."