Alone With You in the Ether: A love story like no other and a Heat Maga

The No. 1 International Bestselling author of The Atlas Six brings us a love story like no other.

This is a glimpse into what it means to be unwell, and how to love as if you’re not broken.

A Heat Book of the Week.

In a Chicago art gallery, two people meet by chance . . .

He is a doctoral student, consumed by calculations on time travel, which he uses as a distraction from destructive thoughts. She is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.

For Regan, people are predictably tedious, including and, perhaps especially, herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, sometimes imagining a new, alternate timeline springing from each rash decision. To Aldo, the world feels chaotic. So he’s erected a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules. Without them, the framework of his existence would collapse.

For Regan and Aldo, life has involved resigning themselves to society’s expectations. But could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that disrupts the entire simulation?

‘Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent’ – Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights

‘This is a book to savor’ – Publishers Weekly

‘Pages fly by in this character-driven novel that is intimate, complicated, and utterly romantic’ – Booklist