J. Newell

The Aonne J. Newell

What can be worse than finding out that your friends betrayed you? You can lose them all. . . When Jack gets sucked into a different, more innocent universe, the protagonists are thrown together to save the world. But Jack did not come alone, a Dark Entity followed him through and is using him as a foothold in the new universe, poisoning the AOnne, the net connecting all life, in the process. Seemingly insurmountable odds force the characters to confront the traumas and conflicts of their lives, interrupted by frantic action but also by tender moments of love. They are helped by an unlikely combination of friends, which range from a flying dinosaur, to an intelligent school of carp, a philosophizing but ever miserable mushroom and its symbiont, the tree Deanna, with culture clashes that produce hilarious results. But evil is strong and has long roots, and then there is the soul of the universe itself, which has a mind of its own