{"id":42,"date":"2024-07-14T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:29:57","slug":"the-overlap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/books\/the-overlap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overlap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/THE-OVERLAP_CoverArt_cropped_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/THE-OVERLAP_CoverArt_cropped_small.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/THE-OVERLAP_CoverArt_cropped_small-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release date:<\/strong> June 14, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Adventure\/Romance\/Sci-Fi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Age recommendation: <\/strong>18+<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life in the 2020s has been hard worldwide due to climate changes, rising food prices, and political unrest. To Jas, a mid-20s woman living in the Midwest, this is daily life and nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her life of work and more work is interrupted by a cataclysmic event dubbed later as \u2018The Overlap\u2019. Her city is turned into a warzone as half of the land is unrecognizably changed. As she struggles to survive the latest \u2018once in a lifetime\u2019 disaster in her Millennial existence, she meets him, an Overlapper man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going against her xenophobic neighbors, she makes friends instead of enemies. Together they find understanding and begin to uncover the real danger in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Overlap is book one of The Overlap series, where post-apocalyptic sci-fi meets romance for a world-saving adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FCKHFSQW\">Now available for purchase on Amazon as ebook or paperback!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FD6CPTLS\/\">Click to view and purchase ebook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Overlap-Jenna-Recktenwald\/dp\/B0FCKHFSQW\/\">Click to view and purchase paperback<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TheOverlapTeaser.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of TheOverlapTeaser.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d0315f11-b227-446e-9a81-adbbd2bf679a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TheOverlapTeaser.pdf\">TheOverlapTeaser<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennarecktenwald.com\/personalprojects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TheOverlapTeaser.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d0315f11-b227-446e-9a81-adbbd2bf679a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release date: June 14, 2025 Genre: Adventure\/Romance\/Sci-Fi Age recommendation: 18+ Summary: Life in the 2020s has been hard worldwide due to climate changes, rising food prices, and political unrest. 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