Parallel Lives - The Paths Not Taken, ebook (release date: Oct 21, 2025)

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When Harriet Last steps into The Experience, an oddly placed exhibit in an insurance convention, she is skeptical of its promises to show her three better versions of her life. But she hopes to avoid a painful confrontation with her boss by hiding in the machine, hastily signing the terms and conditions, guided by the suspiciously familiar salesperson, Ted.

Inside the Experience, the sensory pod shows her visions of her past and probable future with hyper realistic accuracy and unnerving emotional depth. In one scene she is saving lives in Honduras, in another life she is a mother towing rambunctious kids through a market, while in another she is making art in the Arizona desert.

The Experience also retells her childhood and young adult years, making her question whether skipping her assigned breakout sessions is worth this traumatic reliving of her most humiliating moments. As her visions become more personal and intense than she could have anticipated, she wonders what this machine was really designed to do. Harriet notices a man, a fleeting figure from her past, in nearly every scene. When he shares an ominous warning, she must make a decision before time runs out.

The Experience glitches, and a software update fails, leaving her to wonder whether she can make a choice at all. Forced to find her own way out of the machine, she turns to the man in her scenes. Although he is not as innocuous as he claims, he may be the only one who understands how she can escape.

Find out for yourself whether the Experience, and the knowledge of living your full potential, is worth the risk. Do you have what it takes to know your future? Would you have what it takes to try the Experience, and live?

Meta data:

Approx pages: 316

ISBN: 978-1-957944-08-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2025917998

BISAC Subject Headings:

1. FIC028090 Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel

2. FIC028100 Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure

3. FIC027040 Fiction / Romance / Science Fiction 

4. FIC043000 Fiction / Women 

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Time Travel

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Adventure

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Romantic

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women’s Fiction › Psychological