The Dealey Five

by Emily Ann Imes

On January 20, 2013, an invisible crisis takes place overnight on Earth. Our world merges with another per the rules of string theory, unobserved save for QWERTY, the organization monitoring the merge. Five kids are saved from the now-gone parallel universe and are taken to QWERTY headquarters. They are destined to become QWERTY members themselves — until three of them mysteriously disappear, sent back to the world theirs merged into. Carissa Lopez once helped save the world from the crazy man named Dvorak. But the two remaining children arrive in New York City to find their friends, and Carissa is thrust back into the action. She may have won the battle, but not the war — and not all of the chai in the world can keep Dvorak at bay forever.

302 pages, Paperback

Published September 8, 2014

About the author

Emily Ann Imes is a connoisseur of words, a roller coaster enthusiast, a broadcast disc jockey, a fierce warrior of power and light, and a musician who performs in color. She has lived most of her life up to this point in the Midwest, driving through cornfields, inspiring others to create to their highest potential, and stopping at every amusement park along the way. After receiving her bachelor's degree in music from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, she spent a year and a half pretending to work a desk job until coming to the realization that she wanted to be an author.

Her short story "Desynthesized" was an honorable mention in the 2010 Y-City Writers Conference Contest, and her novel "The Mystery of Taconum Carnival" was a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She has crossed the finish line of National Novel Writing Month seven times, racing against the clock to write a novel in a month. Her self-released album "Almond Dust" is available on iTunes.

Emily's many adventures have led her to New York City, where she now resides with her pet cactus, her trusty laptop, and her muse to guide her. She spends what little free time she has left taking long walks in the park, shopping, and drinking way too much soda.