A five-book fantasy adventure series.
Beyond: The Series
Beyond, Book One, Escape: On a hot summer morning, Dara Monahan is spirited away without warning to the wilderness planet Beyond. Its magnificent forests enchant her, yet when she attempts to free a baby animal captured by traffickers, she barely escapes with her life. Determined to rescue the animal she abandoned, she must find a way to return there and survive.
Jim Wilkinson
Jim Wilkinson lives in rural Massachusetts with his sister and a splendid orange cat. After college and graduate studies at Harvard and in Europe, he taught European history and literature and directed a teaching center at his alma mater for many years before retiring in 2009. When not gardening, cooking, or building things, he tries to find space for more books. A published historian, the Beyond series is his debut work of fiction.
Sample Chapters
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Book 1: Escape
Until the hot summer day when thirteen-year-old Dara Monahan discovers the forest planet BEYOND, she has no idea that her favorite oak tree is also a gateway to other worlds. That morning, she finds herself spirited away without warning to a cool and misty clearing deep within a grove of silver trees—a place more beautiful and mysterious than any she could ever have imagined.
But BEYOND is also a battleground. There, cruel men hunt and capture the animals while ghost-like Shadows prey on the living. When Dara discovers a baby animal caught in a hunter’s trap, she tries to free it but is chased away by a guard. Now one of the hunted, she barely escapes with her life.
Then, just as mysteriously, she finds herself back beside the ancient oak where her journey began. Has her adventure been a dream? No—she knows it was real. Now beautiful and dangerous BEYOND refuses to leave her in peace and the pleading eyes of the little captive haunt her. Despite her fears, Dara is determined to return—if only she could figure out how…
Book 2: Tartaros
To learn why animals from Beyond are being abducted and sent to the forbidding planet Tartaros, Dara journeys there as a spy. With the help of her new friend Ali, she discovers the planet’s terrible secret—a discovery that leads to a clash with the murderous Snake Clan.
Book 3: Invasion
Imprisoned by the Snake Clan, Dara is desperate to thwart their impending invasion of Beyond. But time is running out. Can she escape from the Snakes and rally resistance before they attack and she succumbs to the plant poison she received on Tartaros?
Book 4: Missing
Someone is murdering magicians, and Dara’s life is again in danger. Ali in trouble, too. When he disappears on private quest of vengeance, she risks her life to follow him and keep him safe, thus jeopardizing her ties with her family.
Book 5: Homecoming
Dara now knows who is responsible for the magicians’ deaths. But who will believe her? To prevent the surprise villain from destroying what she loves most—on both Beyond and Earth—she must convince those around her to join in a campaign whose prospects are dim at best.
Essays
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A Meerkat Primer
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Writing Beyond
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George Washington, Warmonger
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