The Portal

When crippled friendless twelve year old Andrew Yeager disobeys his father by going for a swim in an intriguing mountain pond, he discovers an eerie violet light pulsating up through the rocky bottom. Surrendering to an unbridled temptation, he extends a hand into the light only to find himself dragged into a terrifying phenomenon that will forever change his life...as well as the lives of all those he meets in the parallel world into which he awakens. Within twenty four hours of his arrival on this strange yet fascinating world, where science is the only religion and a totalitarian world government rules with heartless brutality, Andy and his three new friends find themselves catapulted into a frightening and perilous race against time to prevent an evil military group from misusing the time-warp portal through which Andy has entered their world, in a way that may well destroy all life on both their planets."