Published March 27, 2025
I am pleased to announce that Balance of Seven has acquired my debut YA science fiction novel, Worlds Divide!
Press Release for Worlds Divide by Adria Bailton
Amidst multiple offers, publishers Charlene Templeman and Tod Tinker of Balance of Seven Publishing acquired world English rights for Worlds Divide, her debut novel, a YA science fiction pitched as where THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END meets THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS with the angst and longing of ROMEO & JULIET from author Adria Bailton. The publication is slated for March 2026.
Traveling to parallel worlds is a drag. Except when you meet a hottie.
Nina’s family on her home world demands perfection, an impossible bar to meet when she unpredictably slips into other worlds, leaving behind her body, which is obedient but unable to speak. Breaking dishes after dinners and worse from her perceived disability has been a source of humiliation for her and her family. When a poorly timed slip during Church nearly kills her and splinters her family, she’s convinced she’s fundamentally unlovable.
Nina would do anything for a family who supported her, even leave her own world behind forever no matter the cost. When Nina encounters Corey on her first slip to his world, an instant connection is made. Corey and Nina fall in love. His older brother shows her what it’s like to be protected, and she’s finally found an accepting family. If only she could stay on his world more than one day each week, her life would be perfect.
All she needs is time. But Corey has his own troubles, and every week Nina leaves him behind to return home steers him down a path of his own destruction. If she can’t figure out how to control her visits to parallel worlds soon, she’ll lose him forever.
“It’s a really interesting and engrossing book. I really enjoyed reading it as a submission and I appreciated the sensitive way the story was handled.” – Charlene Templeman
Learn more about Adria Bailton here.