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A practical farmer discovers a crossroads connecting four different realities. An elderly woman is granted forty-eight hours of youth, beauty and wishes. A circus performer learns how to switch bodies. A gold miner confronts a seventy-five-foot island god. New York landmarks mysteriously vanish. And a powerless drifter discovers he can heal—or kill—with a glance. Across these fantasy short stories, wishes, powers, supernatural encounters, alternate realities and impossible changes create adventure, humor, danger, wonder and unexpected consequences.

They were never an obvious group of friends. Julian came from the most staid of county families. Jake's passage from unassuming suburbia to the dreaming spires of Oxford happened only by chance, and at great cost. And Adrienne, daughter of one of New York's wealthiest and most glamorous families, grew up more used to appearances in Vogue than to Oxford's cold and dusty lecture halls. When the three of them arrive at university, it is Julian's sister, Maggie, who brings them together.