The Multiversal Chronicles Series

The Multiversal Chronicles: Book One Strange Adventure Sam and Luke vanish: there one second, gone the next. That's the last thing Kitty Strange expected to happen while in her lounge after school with her best friend Lizzie, Luke's twin sister, and Toby, Kitty's twin brother. Where have her younger sister and Luke disappeared to? Minutes later, Kitty, Toby, and Lizzie materialize in a parallel world, with just one clue as to where Sam and Luke are. What do they do next?  Launch a rescue mission, of course, that leads them to an academy for gifted children owned by Dr Ravenel Raven, an Aquaterran computing genius. Using a 'jumping machine' he stole from mysterious aliens, Dr Raven plans to visit parallel universes in search of a cure for his sister's incurable illness. But first he needs to get the machine working properly – at any cost. Kitty, Toby, and Lizzie learn that in the first experiments humans have indeed been 'jumped' to Aquaterra but are having memory problems. And what's worse, in an attempt to repair their memories, they'll soon be jumped to Earth and back, which in fact may well scramble their memories beyond repair. The countdown to save Sam and Luke begins – but in a hi-tech alien world where real and virtual are sometimes impossible to distinguish, with armed sentinels chasing them, and with the jumping machine to find, will they be in time? A fast-paced and thrilling sci-fi adventure for middle-grade readers. 266 pages

The Multiversal Chronicles: Book Three Strange Resorts The multiversal mix-up just got even worse. Shortly after their Aquaterran and Terraquan adventures, Kitty, Sam, Toby, Lizzie, Luke, Jemima, and Jessica get baffling news: copies of their parents are living somewhere on yet another parallel Earth called Gaea, so they set off on a parent-copy rescue mission. Arriving on Gaea, there's no sign of their parent copies but a puzzling number of Aquaterran and Terraquan copies. And what's more, Cordelia and Corbin Crow, who own a vast galactic tourism empire, know who Kitty and the others are and start setting them challenges. But why? Are the Crows trying to find out what humans are capable of? Do they want to take over Earth and turn it into another of their tourist planets? Who knows? All Kitty and the others can do is follow up clues, which lead them to an amazing virtual-cum-real experience in Zealandia World where the safety systems fail, so they are instantly in great danger, and things go from bad to worse. A fast-paced and thrilling space-age sci-fi adventure for middle-grade readers. 260 pages

The Multiversal Chronicles: Book Two Strange Friends It's happened again! A week after their Aquaterran adventure, Kitty, Sam, Toby, Lizzie, and Luke get terrible news: someone has jumped five of their schoolfriends to Terraqua, another parallel Earth, and they need rescuing. But the schoolfriends think they're Terraquan and have no memory of their lives on Earth, so how can they be persuaded to come home? There are more shocks in store when they arrive: people from Aquaterra living on Terraqua; scary reports of their parents being imprisoned there. And then there's Sacharissa Sable, a ruthless Terraquan business woman who wants to get to Earth using a jumping-machine she stole from two weird aliens. Can Kitty and her team rescue their friends before they become Terraquans for ever? A fast-paced and thrilling sci-fi adventure for middle-grade readers. 300 pages

What are Aquaterrans and Terraquans doing in England? Why can't Kitty, Sam, Toby, Lizzie, Luke, Jemima, and Jessica contact the Multiversal Research Centre? Why are coffee shops and toy shops being taken over by a mysterious new company? Investigating the company, Kitty's team find out who the joint owners are: two women who shouldn't be there on Earth at all. They'll have to stop them before even more harm is done. How can they do that? Drop the huge energy shield. But that means being in three places at once. To succeed in time, they'll have to overcome sentinels, virtual adventure and educational worlds even weirder than those they've come across before, and outsmart the joint owners of the company. A fast-paced and thrilling sci-fi adventure for middle-grade readers. 260 pages

Tyra Bold is not what Kitty Strange and her team were expecting. She's an alien, but nothing like any of the aliens they've met before. And she needs help to find her missing friends and relatives. So it's a quick jump to Pansauria and take it from there. But things are complicated. Their search takes them to Lunaria, a dangerous sister planet to Pansauria; and then to Gaea, Concordia, and Aphrodisia, following up leads on Rosabella Rook and her mischievous daughter Regan.

Disaster in the Multiverse! Merlin and his alien friends at the Multiversal Research Centre are under attack. Kitty Strange and her team are the only people who can save them. But what can they do? Jumping blind and ending up on Avalonia, they're met by a group of young elves who were expecting them. As they start to learn about the mysterious Morwen and the large elf army she's building, they're interrupted by recruiters and who want to enlist them in the army. Split into two groups, they find themselves in worse trouble. So begins a scary adventure that takes them to the island of Avalon and Morwen herself. Are they supposed to help her or beat her? And how will all this save Merlin and his friends?

Kitty, Sam, Toby, Lizzie, Luke, Jemima, and Jessica take up Merlin's offer of places at his multiversal multiversity. All's well until Merlina, a scheming head of a neighbouring Research Centre, pays a visit and sets up an inter-multiversity contest, pitting the Terran Team, as Merlin calls them, against her own elite team. The young humans endure a series of life-threatening challenges: escaping ridiculously difficult situations, a frantic space race-and-rescue mission, and an Immersive Book Experience in which the two teams and their friends play the characters, with the loser losing everything. Will they win through and foil Merlina's plan to discredit Merlin?

Why has a strong force-field appeared around the Human Realm on Avalonia? With the help of their young elf friends, the Terran Team investigate, uncovering further mysteries and finding themselves being tested with hair-raising and tricky challenges in virtual worlds. But why? Is Morwen Fay behind it? It seems unlikely as she's imprisoned in a space–time shield. And who are the Metal People? Where do they come from and what's their connection with Morwen? Things go from bad to worse as four of them are transported to a weird but wonderful alien world. Will they ever get back?

Kitty, Toby, Sam, and Jemima embark on a task for Merlin, jumping into the unknown. But where are they? Why do their surroundings keep changing? Knowing something has gone badly wrong, Lizzie, Luke, Jessica, and two of their friends join them in a weird universe, where they all have to pit their wits against a gamemaster, a gamemistress, and a familiar yet unfamiliar adversary.   How can they escape this bizarre place? Playing the game to its conclusion seems to be the only option. But how many levels will they have to pass through? And what will actually happen when they finish the final level? There's only one thing they know for certain: the game's on!

People and animals jumping at random between parallel Earths. Merlin and his friends trapped and out of contact. What's going on in the Multiverse? The Terran Team try to sort it, discovering a rift within the multiversal fabric that's keeping open the barriers between parallel worlds. Their investigations lead them to the virtual Detainment World, with its bird-like sentinels, alien detainees, and the challenges of the Training Arena, set in a strange virtual world of its own. Can the team do anything to stop the havoc caused by alien animals materializing in Oakham? Can they restore contact with Merlin? Can they work out how to seal the multiversal rift before it grows too large to seal? This is their most challenging challenge yet.