Slip: Two Worlds One Mind by Cristie Yager

Elle Florence, mother to young Mai, unappreciated partner to Toby, comes from a curious bloodline known as The Florence Women whom have the ability to slip. She lives a life of perpetual boredom and melancholy. When the everyday pressures of life begin to drown her, she begins slipping into vivid dreams of another life. A life where she has a purpose and a destiny. Feeling at home in a utopian world. She is at peace, happy and adored by Torian, a godlike barista sent to her from Frin. She wakes from her dreams to find she’s lost time, sometimes days. As her waking life seems to spiral out of control pushing her to the brink of suicide, Frin, an alternate world, calls to her. Tempts her. Nessa Elle’s mother, begins hinting that Frin may not only be a dream. It truly exists. Nessa a controlling alcoholic, continues to leave breadcrumbs that only push Elle closer to the edge of suspected insanity. The more she searches for answers the deeper her bewilderment becomes. Elle must decide. Should she give up her child, slip into a blissful life while helping to save Frin; a threatened world she isn’t sure really exists? Or remain on Earth, depression bound, surviving a pointless and torturous existence for the sake of those around her?