Karen L West, Author

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A boy genius built the box. His family turned it on. Now the only way forward is through another world.

One invention was supposed to protect them. Instead, it opened the way to another world.

Cage Withers has always been different. Brilliant, curious, and far too young to carry the weight of the secrets surrounding Walker Territory, he creates devices most adults can barely understand. But when one experimental box opens a doorway between worlds, everything changes.

What begins as a hidden invention becomes the only escape from a government determined to control Cage, his family, and the technology he never meant to weaponize.

On the other side of the vortex lies Tapuat, a beautiful and dangerous world with clean air, strange skies, unfamiliar rules, and no guarantee of survival. Families, soldiers, scientists, elders, and children must decide whether to cling to the world they know or risk everything for a new beginning beyond the portal.

But crossing into Tapuat is only the first step.

A new world must be explored. A community must be built. Enemies may follow. And Cage must learn that the box he created may hold the future of everyone he loves.

The Box Between Worlds is a science fiction adventure about invention, family, survival, hidden refuge, and the courage to step through the impossible.