The Unreturned

THE UNRETURNED

The future is arriving. But not everyone agrees on what it means.

In Port Ferris, people emerge from impossible doorways carrying memories of futures that haven't happened. They speak of lives never lived, families that don't exist, and events that may never come to pass.

For Hollis Reyne, separating truth from fiction is a profession. As a senior interviewer for the Office of Arrivals, she has spent years questioning those who come through, searching for the line between what they know and what they only believe.

Then, one rainy October night, a stranger steps out of a doorway in a harbor tunnel.

He knows her name. He remembers a marriage she never had. And he carries a warning about a future that is suddenly much closer than anyone realizes.

As unsettling accounts begin to converge, Hollis finds herself caught between the rules she has spent her career enforcing and the people she cannot bear to lose.

Because in a world where every choice creates another possible future, knowing what happens next may be the most dangerous thing of all.

The Unreturned is an atmospheric literary science-fiction mystery about love, loss, impossible choices, and the terrible weight of knowing what might have been.