Amynta of Anatolia — Ben Parris

Young Wade Linwood has always been troubled by seeing objects floating in the air, music coming from his touch, and colors spilling out of black ink. But when he went for acupuncture to cure an injured wrist, the needle tapped into an unused portal in his brain that sent him to 9th century Byzantium. That was when the most complicated, bizarre place in human history got even weirder.He and Amynta step right into the middle of a civil war that threatens to bring down the world's greatest empire and strip away all the rest of history, including Wade's own. Even at that, nothing is as it seems. They are living in a past that never was. And never should be. The two of them are separated, fighting missions of their own as they struggle to get back to each other.Meanwhile, the interventions of an all-powerful paraplegic child and two mysterious dogs have not gone unnoticed. Now half of all the verses in the multiverse have been torn apart, and all the threads of Time are swirling around them.