A troubled Portland teen has to make tough choices when he discovers that he is the link to the survival of Parallel Worlds. He embarks on an adventurous journey filled with wonder, friendship, revenge and betrayal. Can he sacrifice everything to save Worlds he has never known and the lives of those he holds dearly?
Jake Winslow, reticent and bullied all his life, always believed that this was how he would spend the rest of his life, until a mysterious girl named Amberly enters his school... and his life. Jake had no idea that this encounter would set off a chain of events that would transform him from a weak, misunderstood boy into one of the most powerful beings on the planet. Through Amberley, Jake learns of parallel universes, called the Parallels. Guarding these Parallels is a race of powerful individuals known as the Parallelists. Jake's family is abducted by the fearsome Reapers, an evil sect of the Parallelists, led by the sinister and ruthless Ruben Alistair.
Jake and his friends set off on a perilous journey to rescue them. Each of these companions have their own journeys of discovery along the way and none of them will ever be the same again....
