Darkness Rising: Book One of The Catmage Chronicles

Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn't have been more wrong.

Goldeneyes is a Catmage - a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There's just one problem: Goldeneyes can't stand humans.

The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who's been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it's personal. That Catmage is her grandmother. Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can't, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat...

About the Author
Meryl Yourish has been writing since the ninth grade, when she wrote her first short story about alienation after moving to a new town and attending a new school. The story made it into the Parents Night magazine, and her writing career was born. She spent most of her life in northeastern New Jersey. She moved to Richmond, VA in 2002, where she lives with two cats that look suspiciously like Goldeneyes and Letsan. Find out more about Meryl, her cats, and The Catmage Chronicles at www.merylyourish.com.