by Gabriel Nyitse
There are a handful of people called Twin-Souled, able to exist on two worlds at once — Earth and a parallel realm called Odbeara. Simon Ward is 19 and dying in an ICU. Then he wakes up on Odbeara as Symon Wardreth, an arrogant noble with unlimited potential. But Simon isn't Twin-Souled. He's a Mirror Walker, a calamity-grade anomaly, with one soul bleeding across two worlds at once. Every spell he casts borrows against his own lifespan. Every day he survives, the two worlds bleed closer together. Only his death stops it. Simon isn't ready to die. Not while his little sister is waiting for him at home. So he goes looking for the God Pearl, the only thing that can split his soul before it kills them all. Standing in his way is Emperor Callibus, a Mirror Walker himself once, now a demon lord who watched his own family rot on Earth while he was trapped in Odbeara. He doesn't want to destroy the worlds. He wants to fuse them, and Simon's unraveling soul is the spark he needs. What does a 19-year-old do when Earth wants to pull the plug, Odbeara wants him dead, and the only way to save either is to tear himself in half?
