Parallel Lines

When Thomas's constant indiscretions wreck his decade-long marriage to handsome Carter Lamm, he wonders how different choices might have made him happier. In a misguided attempt to help, Ed Williams, Thomas's Big Gay Role Model, shares a technology that plunges users into alternative worlds: versions of the present day, shaped by different choices. Would Thomas be happier stepping on Legos while juggling a wife and kid ... partnered to America's favorite secretly gay action star ... or married to "The One Who Got Away"? With each jump from life to life, Thomas gets just 24 hours to choose to stay (and, likely screw things up with his signature blend of self-absorption and over-thinking) or move on to the next of four "roads not taken." But with each jump poking holes in the fabric of reality -- and with the creator of the jump tech rushing to shut this unauthorized adventure down -- can Thomas break his self-sabotage habit, escape collapsing realities, and find the critical path to happiness before his blundering around destroys the universe? This gay romantic comedy with sci-fi / parallel universe elements will delight anyone who has looked back on prior relationships and wondered ... "What if?" Parallel Lines combines the comically self-aware sexuality of Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends ... the escalating tensions of Kate Hope Day's alternate worlds drama If, Then ... and the life-hopping drama of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library. The result is a funny, fast-paced, and unexpectedly spiritual tale of one man's efforts to put his love life back together even as the world comes apart at the seams.