What Tangled Paths We Sew

Aura Barrows is stuck in a life that feels like the wrong timeline—until she finds  an online self-improvement community that promises something more than affirmations and vision boards: the ability to shift into the version of yourself who didn’t screw everything up. What starts as late-night rituals and guided meditations twists into missing hours, déjà vu lives, and a snake-threaded presence that follows Aura from one reality to the next. Each “better” life demands a sacrifice, and the community seems far too invested in how much of herself Aura is willing to give up. As her identities tangle and fray, Aura must decide which self deserves to survive—and what it will cost to cut the thread.