Redemption Lost

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Sometimes the only difference between good and evil
is the side you’re standing on when the battle starts

The masterminds behind the viral experiments have put together a team of elite soldiers led jointly by Eric Richter and Stephen Collins, a powerful telepath who can control people to do his bidding. Their first mission is to complete a series of ritual sacrifices in Tucson that will lure Wendy, Jamie, and Jobe into a trap.

With the bait taken, Stephen manipulates the trio into a meeting with Jobe’s sister, Amber McKenzie, using her to drive a wedge between Wendy and Jobe. Stephen works to keep the vigilantes at odds with each other, while the elites attempt to frame FBI agents Gavin Lebowitz and Stephanie Callaghan for murder.

Just when things can’t seem worse, Jobe is taken. Then despite the efforts of Amber and her friends, Wendy is captured as well. Both will be forced to confront the evils they’ve committed in pursuit of revenge, and both will be made an offer they can’t refuse. Only one will agree to work for the elites, a decision that could cost them their life.

But the elites have powerful enemies who have also taken an interest in Jobe and Wendy, and while they prepare for an attack on the Tucson base of operations, Amber and her friends are planning a rescue attempt of their own. Even with the help of these unexpected allies, will it be possible to shut down the elites and stop the rituals for good?

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ISBN: 978-0-9820427-0-0

In this stunning conclusion to the Campaign trilogy, the lines between good and evil are blurred. Wendy, her brother Jamie, and their gaurdian Jobe have disrupted both phases of the elites' viral experiments. They've exposed Colonel Eric Richter and forced him to flee from his post at Fort Huachuca.

But to do so, they've had to steal evidence, commit blackmail, and even kill people in cold blooded premeditation. Wendy has justified every action as being necessary, and her desperate need for revenge has kept her blinded to the odds she's facing by seeking a confrontation with the elites.

Five months after the deaths of her closest family members, Wendy is finally recovering her senses, and the blinders covering her eyes by her death wish have been removed. Unfortunately, it may already be too late to back out of the trap.

The masterminds behind the rituals have used their moles in the FBI to take the original reports submitted by Agents Gavin Lebowitz and Stephanie Callaghan, and now they are aware of Jamie, and of Jobe's reflection. Like Gavin, the elites have chosen to attempt to capture and recruit the unruly mind readers. To accomplish this, the leaders of the elites have called in their own telepath, Stephen Collins.

Under instruction from the masterminds, Stephen has developed a series of ritual sacrifices to lure Wendy and Jobe into Tucson, and into Stephen's lengthy range of influence. But the rituals serve a shocking dual pupose, because if Stephen can complete all seven sacrifices, the elites will be able to summon a daemon.

Seven men from Tucson have been abducted, all of them charity workers dressed in Santa Claus costumes. One by one, the men are compelled to perform a grisly sacrifice. Clues on each victim are left behind to catch the attention of Jobe and Wendy, and by the second victim, they are on their way to the city to begin investigating the "Santa Slayings."

Wendy, Jamie, and Jobe arrive in Tucson and meet with Agents Lebowitz and Callaghan to begin planning their investigation. But, within mintues of their first meeting, the game of cat and mouse has begun, and Stephen is a puppetmaster pulling the strings to keep everyone divided.

Isolated from both Jobe and Jamie, Wendy is manipulated into questioning Jobe's reliabilty, and into questioning her justifcations in seeking revenge. Wendy has never thought of herself as a "good guy," and in the eyes of the law, she's just a bad as the people she's been pursuing. Wendy is forced to see how she's been a hypocrite by allying herself with a serial killer with innocent blood on his hands.

The game of cat and mouse ends in capture for Jobe and Wendy, and both are made a simple offer: join the elites or die. One will accept, and the other will refuse. One will live, and one will die. One will travel to the afterlife, and the other will plunge into into the smog-filled depths of a daemonic dimension.

By the time reinforcements arrive, will there be anyone to rescue? Or is all hope of redmption truly lost?

Reviews:
The Angry Princess has reviewed the book for Monster Librarian here.
Julie Dawson has given a glowing review in issue #2 of Bards and Sages Quarterly.