<p>Bullied at school ashamed of his parents and tired of who he is 12-year-old Joseph Ward is certain things are as bad as they can get. Until tragedy strikes and he finds himself locked up in St. Theodore's Academy for Wayward Children a reform school overseen by a cruel and merciless headmaster.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph has a secret gift though. A gift that takes him to magical and terrifying worlds. His only hope of escape is through these places. But something unimaginable lurks within them. Something dangerous. Something hungry.</p>