Publisher's Synopsis
The book begins with the central character, Babyme, kept in a box in a damp cold musty cellar since birth, survives neglect and abuse by eating insects and worms, molds and fungi, and drinking from puddles of water that collect on the floors. A cowardly fearful mother secretly visits him once in a while. A psychopathic stepfather tries to electrocute the child once he has grown big, scarred, deformed, and ugly from all the sufferings he has undergone. He survives the attempt, only to discover he now has powers that allow him to manipulate every aspect of the electromagnetic spectrum. He has taught himself to read from old mildewy falling-apart books and comics he has found in the cellar and likens himself to characters like the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Quasimodo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the Monster in Frankenstein. Except he has SUPERPOWERS, he calls himself MegaHURTz, and he is a vengeful and terrible Monster. Until be meets Beauty! A beautiful and kind teenage girl who can't understand her love for him. Except maybe her dark past has something to do with it!
There are multiple "Beauties" in this book, one being the adopted daughter of a retired air force vet, now church minister in upstate NY, a beautiful young adopted mixed Asian teenage girl who finds Mega's "ugliness" as mysterious and fascinating as he finds her beauty and kindness enchanting. Her name is Moira, which means "fate", and she will (try to) prove that love is stronger than all Mega's superpowers. Mega feels he would do Moira a favor if he went away and she forgot him. But he doesn't know about the terrible secret she carries, and why she is drawn to him. Yet. In Australia he meets a strange orphaned Aborigine (she considers herself an "Indigenu") child with dark skin, wild nappy hair of all colors, and hypnotic blue eyes, at a school where she is treated as an outcast. He almost kills himself crossing a desert to get to where she says she lives, finds out she is a sorceress named Darana, and she is a shape-shifter and time traveler who can be anywhere, and anyone, she wants to be, and she can be any age she wants to be. She tempts Mega as a child, considering him still a child, and after drugging him on a fruit she calls achuguacha fruit, she shows him how he could/would be once he realized his full potential. As Mega says, "She shows up in more places than the Virgin Mary!" The book concludes with 5 alternate endings that will take the reader on mind altering trips, from apocalyptic to spiritually redemptive, throughout the multiverse.