Though almost thirteen-year-old John and definitely thirteen-year-old Julia have known each other all their lives, their perspectives on what’s cool and exciting are poles apart. Narrated by Pretty Little Liars star and Teen Choice award-winner Janel Parrish, The Journeys of John and Julia: Genesis is the first in a series about magic, friendship, and adventure.

John and Julia find out that they have been chosen by a collective of wondrous beings called The Twenty-two to save the world from the manipulations of the beyond evil Niem Vidalgo Oten. Fortunately, those Twenty-two have skills that reach from conjuring images of Julia’s dead grandfather to shifting entire realities—unfortunately, however, their moral codes do not allow them to operate in what they call the outer world without the help of humans.

As the story unfolds, John and Julia will not only tackle their very personal challenges of being adolescents in a society that has become detrimental to support young adults in developing meaningful lives but they will unravel and re-direct Oten’s attempts to ensnare the minds of their peers.

We will see how Niem Vidalgo Oten and his legion of monsters in human guise try to steal emotional, mental, and physical energy from people to further his insatiable greed for power and control. He is doing that by way of using their own desires and needs to trap them in his nightmare vision of the future.

With the help of the powers of the Twenty-two, our young heroes will find out how Oten uses modern technologies like networking applications, movies, music, fashion, stories, therapy, media, and politics, in one word, everything that spans from cathedral to star gate, to accomplish his sinister mission.