The Hunt for the Catalyst

PROPHECIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN . . . WITHIN 7 DAYS.

All Billy wants is a foster parent who doesn’t

1. run off with the maître d’,

2. get torched by lightning, or

3. feed him soup with arsenic.

Worse still, his fallback orphanage – after a series of fires, African mutated viruses, and escaped poltergeists – thinks he and his bad luck should be deported to New Zealand.

Enter Mrs. Night, who seems as eager to foster Billy as he is to gaze upon her creamy skin . . . until he discovers the tattoos that cover every inch of her totally smokin’ body are for summoning hellish demons. Oh, and his new home just happens in the First Demon Realm. It’s a world filled with harpies, trees with Gorgon heads and Japanese ghost children who speak through writing pads.

But why is everyone – demon, human and superhuman – suddenly after Billy? Why does Mrs. Night’s husband, the most powerful telekinetic alive, insist that Billy is the fabled and much prophesied ‘Catalyst’? What does a ‘Catalyst’ do and, more importantly, does he survive doing it?

Billy has 7 days to find out.

THE HUNT FOR THE CATALYST is a contemporary fantasy novel (85,000 words) filled with angst, hope, terror, joy, and young people who just want to belong – no matter what worlds they come from.

This is BOOK ONE of THE ETHER WORLD CHRONICLES.

A compendium to this is THE ETHER WORLD CHRONICLES: BEGINNINGS.