A mind-bending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy. and Are you happy with your life? And Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, and Welcome back, my friend. and In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagine done that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.