Synopsis

Nineteen years before making the darkest decision of her life, Nora Seed plays chess with Mrs. Elm in her school library. She doesn’t know that the board, the pieces moving in calculated directions, reflect her own destiny. Years later, her life unravels into a spiral of regret and loneliness. Until, standing at the edge of the abyss, the Midnight Library appears: an infinite place where every book is a life she could have lived. Now, Nora has the chance to rewrite her story… but every choice comes at a price.

First Part: The Weight of Days

The rain beats against the asphalt like a gloomy metronome. Nora Seed stares out the window, unaware that she is counting down the seconds of a life that is about to end. There is nothing epic about her finale. Just a series of failures, small daily deaths that have slowly extinguished her light.

The cat is dead. Volt. Her only companion in an apartment where the shadows stretch too far. Nora steps out onto the street and finds him there, his body motionless by the curb. The cold of the night seeps into her skin, but the real frost is inside her.

—I'm so sorry —says Ash, the neighbor who brought the news.