Closeted, queer twelve-year-old J is cursed, reliving sixth grade over and over. Same bullies, same school, same loneliness. Something terrible keeps happening at the end of the year, and then the year resets. But he can’t remember what the Terrible Thing is. And he can’t escape . . . until two new kids show up. Rory-brave, confident, and instantly popular-seems like everything J wants to be. P-a fierce loner with a big secret-wants nothing to do with J or anyone else. And they’re trapped in the time loop, too. Looking for any means of escape, the unlikely trio find a portal into the Haven, a shifting landscape of floating islands and fantastical magic that comes to people who need help solving unsolvable problems. In the heart of the Haven they discover a raging conflict that touches all three of them. J, Rory, and P soon discover the only way to break their time loop is to face a fear they’ve been running from for their whole lives.
