Jinn Nelson
Traveler
language
(OwlCat Press March 30, 2018)
The barista finished the drink and with a victorious flourish set it before the blue-haired girl.
“Just in time. Thanks,” the girl said insincerely. She stood and gathered her papers.
“No, I meant you don’t have any more time,” said the man. “The world ends in—” he glanced at his watch again “forty-eight seconds.”
Trapped in a cafe that travels to seven dimensions on an infinite loop, Jaz Contra serves coffee while trying to locate the mysterious white-haired man who put her there.
When a young shapechanger named Bracken--whose search for his missing aunt leads him to this very cafe--stows away in her basement, Jaz must help him survive until he can return to his own world. Through a series of bizarre encounters with talking tigers, polymorphs, alchemists, thieves and the occasional grim reaper, Bracken's efforts to locate his aunt create daily chaos, threatening Jaz's chances of ever escaping--not to mention the stability of seven universes.
“Just in time. Thanks,” the girl said insincerely. She stood and gathered her papers.
“No, I meant you don’t have any more time,” said the man. “The world ends in—” he glanced at his watch again “forty-eight seconds.”
Trapped in a cafe that travels to seven dimensions on an infinite loop, Jaz Contra serves coffee while trying to locate the mysterious white-haired man who put her there.
When a young shapechanger named Bracken--whose search for his missing aunt leads him to this very cafe--stows away in her basement, Jaz must help him survive until he can return to his own world. Through a series of bizarre encounters with talking tigers, polymorphs, alchemists, thieves and the occasional grim reaper, Bracken's efforts to locate his aunt create daily chaos, threatening Jaz's chances of ever escaping--not to mention the stability of seven universes.