The Catalyst

Sometimes love interrupts life in the most terrifying and unexpected ways.Kelynn Sanders has a head full of dreams as overwhelming as North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. She can’t contain it nor control it. The constant swimming of what ifs, wants, aspirations, and the possible failure of it all causes her to black out. She tries her best to transfer her thoughts into a mystical opal necklace, but it only keeps her episodes temporarily at bay.

When she meets Clayton Fogerty, he’s soon the only thing that clears her head—making life bearable again, but Clayton has a secret. He has Kelynn’s opal necklace and accesses her thoughts to boost her confidence by creating “coincidental” scenarios to push her into what he thinks she wants.

With Clayton around, Kelynn feels compelled to chase her dreams, but can she ever do it on her own and overcome the all-consuming darkness?

The Catalyst has been named a finalist for the following awards: American Writing Awards, Hindi's Libraries Females of Fiction, and the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards (CIBAs) in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.