Meet Fabia Terentia, sophomore

She's a teenage gladiator from a parallel Earth where the Roman Empire never fell. She's bigger and stronger and braver than anybody ... but she's headed for a crisis she can't just hit her way out of. And if she fails, the entire multiverse meets a cataclysmic end. 

Parallel U. - Sophomore Year by Dakota Rusk, available now. (Art by Dan Dougherty.)

Meet Merri Terryl, sophomore

She's from a parallel Earth whose surface is permanently scorched by a nuclear exchange between the USA and USSR. She's small and frail but has the heart of a lion, and has already heroically made the ultimate sacrifice. (Yes, that one.) (It's complicated.)

Parallel U. - Sophomore Year by Dakota Rusk, available now. (Art by Dan Dougherty.)

Meet Darius m-1117, sophomore

He's an android from a parallel Earth where the flesh-and-blood people all died in a nanoplague. But just because he's a mechanism instead of an organism doesn't mean he's not as human as you. (Does it?)
 

Parallel U. - Sophomore Year by Dakota Rusk, available now. (Art by Dan Dougherty.)

Meet Gerrid Selk, sophomore

He's from a parallel Earth where mankind as a nocturnal species. He's very pale, has elongated canines, and eats raw meat and blood; but he'd really, really prefer it if you didn't call him a vampire.

Parallel U. - Sophomore Year by Dakota Rusk, available now. (Art by Dan Dougherty.)

Sophomore Year now available!

Welcome to Parallel University, where the students all come from parallel universes! After the cataclysmic crisis of Freshman Year, everyone is stranded on campus, with no means of returning to their home parallels. Now a familiar figure reappears, offering a way back—for a price. It’s a devil’s bargain, and only the four heroes of Freshman Year stand firm against it. But Fabia Terentia, the Roman gladiator girl, is secretly tempted by the offer…and soon finds herself swept into a shattering conspiracy that hurls her from one bizarre parallel to the next (bringing her face to face with the unlikeliest ally imaginable), finally landing her in the fiery furnace of creation itself—where the decision she makes will decide the fate of the entire multiverse.

Available in trade paperback and for Kindle; other formats to follow.

Coming soon.

Home news: free giveaway & book trailer

Couple items of business. First, we're giving away ten autographed copies of Parallel U. - Freshman Year through Goodreads. Enter through April 15 for your chance to win. Don't know if we'll be doing this again—not till Sophomore Year, anyway—so if you're a traditional book lover, this is the way to possibly get hold of our handsome trade edition for nothin' more than a point-click.

Also, we've put together a book trailer for Freshman Year, which we humbly think is kinda smokin'. Hope you enjoy it. 

Thassall for now. Until next time, may all your various parallel lives be killin'.