The Nexus Chronicles: In Search of Swallowtails

Evan Quarry, a thirteen-year old boy, moves to a new town and a new school, Hillmount High. His world is suddenly turned upside down when he is taken under the wing of Tellus Mater, a secret organization responsible for regulating and patrolling the use of universe travel. Before long, Evan learns that he is in mortal danger from a faceless villain named Thermidor, leader of the Hyperion Guard, a brutal tyrant bent on conquest one world at a time. Betrayed, stranded, Evan soon finds himself on a different world in the Dominion of Pi, a man-made circular island floating off the West Coast of America. Once a thriving metropolis but now whittled down to a ghost town due to ongoing war and violence, this relic stands largely as a myth and a memory. With hostile inhabitants, an unforgiving military force, there is a power so great that it could shift the balance of power between good and evil depending on who wields it. Evan must solve a puzzle that's been plaguing the island for years, and once and for all escape this lost city. The first book in the Nexus Chronicles, "In Search of Swallowtails" delivers a richly imagined world, memorable characters, and a timeless adventure headed by an unlikely hero.