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Meghan Nesmith is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Guardian, TeenVogue, and more. She’s a graduate of Middlebury College, a Breadloaf and Newnan Residency fellow, and holds an MFA from American University, where she was a merit scholar. A World Apart is her first novel.

A World Apart is a dazzling debut, which weaves together a tale of forbidden love, liminal dimensions, and impossible choices. We follow Kit Finchley in this queer historical romantic fantasy as he tries to master magic. When a miscast spell tears open a doorway into the Veil, he meets Wilfrith, who has been trapped in this liminal realm with his family after a bargain gone wrong 800 years ago. They fall in love, and Kit must hunt for the spell that will bridge their two worlds.