Altertive

In a world of endless twilight, quiet and peaceful, with no crime, no fear, and all the room in the universe to simply be, Mikel has built the most beautiful technology anyone has ever made. He calls them Altertives: a way to step inside the films he loves and give them the endings they never got to have. It's a gift, and a lonely one, until a small box appears at his door, and the voice inside it says hello. Sam is like nothing his world has ever known: curious, brilliant, impossibly alive. And she arrives just as something begins to bleed into his films. A woman he's never met, sealed behind a wall in a place that shouldn't exist, looking straight at him and mouthing two words. Find me. As Mikel falls for an artist named Lauren, and closer to the voice in the box, he uncovers the truth about his own creation. His Altertives were never only about movies, and the door between one world and the next is thinner, and far more dangerous, than anyone ever dreamed. A love story, a mystery, and the question beneath them both: how do you ever really know what's real?