Rosealie is a recent college graduate, trying to rebuild her life after a devastating break up. Amelia is a jaded caseworker, stuck in the same job for decades. The only thing they have in common is that they’re both dead.

After a car accident, Rosealie arrives in the Life Imbalance Modification and Betterment Office, screaming and wild. In the moments after her death, she saw visions of her past lives and deduced that she’s a pawn in a centuries-long game. Amelia, the lead caseworker in LIMBO, is having a terrible day. It’s the 45th anniversary of her death, and fed up, she takes the simplest route to shutting Rosealie up: a Memory Wipe.

Amelia wants nothing to do with Rosealie, but she’s offered a deal: guide Rosealie up the mountain of Purgatory and be released from caseworker duty. It seems simple, but then Rosealie’s obsessive ex, Max, shows up in LIMBO. Soon strange things start to happen: Rosealie suffers from debilitating visions, Max keeps escaping from his assignment, and people are vanishing. It seems as if someone––or something––is helping Max, and hindering Rosealie, but Amelia can’t figure out who or why. She painstakingly reconstructs Rosealie’s last day, obliterated by the Memory Wipe, and discovers that Rosealie and Max are part of a fated relationship that just happens to be Heaven’s favorite reality show. In order to break the corrupt cycle, Rosealie must fight against the pull of her past lives and Amelia has to face the sin she’s been denying. If they succeed, they’ll free themselves, Max, and other trapped souls from endless subjugation––but rejecting the comfort and safety of tradition and letting go of toxic shame turns out to be harder than either of them imagined.

NEVEREST is a genderbent reimagining of Dante’s PURGATORIO. It is adult speculative fiction, complete at 105,000 words. It mixes the multiple POVs and twisting plot of THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES with the complicated relationships and exploration of the afterlife of THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY. It casts Purgatory as a dysfunctional bureaucracy with whimsical punishments. It contains cultural commentary, a diverse cast, and a story about a love that lasted through generations––even though it shouldn’t have.