title: Beyond Paradox: The Great Awakening (Volume 2)
author: Stuart Englert
description: A veteran newspaper reporter, magazine editor and writer, Stuart Englert also is the author of "ParadoxValley of the Sheeple" and Sold OutHow an American Magazine Lost Its Soul.
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  # Soulhome
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Book #1 of The Weirkey Chronicles
  
  
  
  
  
  Version beta
  
  
  © 2020 Sarah Lin
  
  
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or
  used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the
  publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  
  
  
  
  
  > # Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  Stepping across space and time to enter a new world eventually became
  repetitive.
  
  
  But it never grew dull. The liminal moment in which the vastness of a world
  not his own yawned before him. The hollowness filling his chest as he
  momentarily ceased to exist. The staggering disorientation as he stepped onto
  ground that changed him more than he changed it. Even as he stepped into the
  truly unknown, he was accompanied by those familiar sensations.
  
  
  Theo took a deep breath of air he'd never breathed before. In his years of
  travel, he had set foot in five of the Nine Worlds, yet he immediately knew
  that this was not one