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Jack and Aiyanna return home to find artfully displayed pieces of a dead burglar waiting for them. Who was he? Who - or what - killed him? At the Court of Flowers, Chloe Witherspoon learns what her owners have planned for her, but she has a plan of her own. Travis Tyler pursues his vendetta against Jack, but someone far more cunning unleashes a vendetta against him. Ramage Cadler creates doubts in Jack's mind about Aiyanna. Is she truly who she claims to be? Or is she something far darker? When he shares his fears, Aiyanna reveals her past - and that of her people - in a way that leaves Jack spellbound. Brighid and the sorceress Morgana scheme, a Seraph becomes an ally, and the Old Stone senses the Darkness coiling around Jack and Aiyanna...

The Odyssey of the Warrior’s Path Continues…Jack Thornton and Sean Plunkett have survived seemingly fatal wounds, while Aiyanna, the Last of the People of the Songs, has become Jack’s lover. Their deadly enemy, Heinrich Kuhl, has vanished but remains hell-bent on destroying them both, as does his eldritch master—the Yarvaak Golu: The-God-Who-Waits.Former friends who are now enemies also seek to destroy them: Brighid, the Red Queen, once Jack’s mistress but now driven half-mad by her jealousy of Aiyanna; Inspector Travis Napoleon Tyler, who blames Jack for the fiery deaths of two police officers during the gun battle in Union Square; Ramage Calder and Eiger, his giant deaf-mute bodyguard, who have orders to kill both Jack and Aiyanna if they prove to be Interlopers in the guise of human beings.Jack and Aiyanna are also threatened by new enemies: Kuhl’s master: The Changeling, once human but now a monstrous servant of The-God-Who-Waits; Milo Astor Stylet, a psychopath recruited by the CIA as part of the Ambergris Protocol; a giant predator summoned by the Yarvaak Golu from its hunting grounds in the depths of the Pacific Ocean; Katie Moran, a winsome Girl Scout sent by Kuhl to murder them with a deadly sea shell hidden in a box of cookies; and the beautiful Chloe Witherspoon, an initiate of the Court of Flowers, who seduces one of Jack’s trusted friends and makes him her willing accomplice.Also numbered among Jack’s enemies is his own alter ego: Cuchulain, the Blood Lord, a warlord whose berserker’s bloodlust and savagery threaten all around him when he is roused.But Jack and Aiyanna find new friends and allies as well: Annabelle, the mischievous pixie who is drawn to Jack; the Fays, creatures of Faerie who have come to watch over Aiyanna; Ben Carson, once Jack’s Platoon Sergeant in Vietnam and now a Modoc County Sherriff’s Deputy; Charley Tall Tree, Modoc guide and tracker; The Old One, a blind Modoc Wise Woman who looks deeply into Jack’s soul and sees what is hidden there; and, as always, there is Jack’s mentor, the wise and lethal Sean Plunkett.The second book of the Omniverse Chronicles will see Jack travel from his new home in Marin County to an Edenic grove of Redwoods, where the murderous dimensions of Brighid’s jealousy are revealed to him. Jack Thornton will also find himself standing before his former lover and her court in a terrible dream: a dream in which Death may claim him as surely as it would in the waking world.Jack, Aiyanna, and Sean Plunkett will journey to the far northern reaches of California in search of their mortal enemy, Heinrich Kuhl. There Jack will face instead the Changeling and its hideous servants in a duel to the death where not only his life—but his very soul and our world—are the hazard.Follow Jack and Aiyanna as they face new perils in the second volume of The Omniverse Chronicles . . .

What if you were haunted by strange and terrible dreams in the night? But what if they were not dreams, but preludes of the truth? What if you met the woman of your dreams in a nightmare? What if you learned that you were doomed to a terrible destiny, and that there was nothing that you could do to escape it? This is the fate that befalls Jack Thornton, a former Marine lieutenant who served with the famed "Walking Dead" in Vietnam and who is now a lawyer in San Francisco. His quiet, ordered life begins to unravel, however, when his nightmares begin to shape his waking hours. The grim images that haunt Jack's sleep are not of Vietnam, but of things and beings not of this earth. Foremost among them is an adversary older than time and evil beyond imagining: the Yarvaak Golu, The-God-Who-Waits. Jack comes to realize that he is something far more than human. He is a Hero, an undying servant of the Absolute, doomed to an endless cycle of violent death and rebirth. Jack Thornton finally accepts not only what he is, but that his very soul and our world are in more than merely mortal danger. Jack's journey of discovery leads him down a dangerous and uncharted path to a deadly meeting with his eternal enemy, Heinrich Kuhl; who, like Jack, is also more than merely human. Kuhl is a Servant of Death: a willing pawn of far greater and vastly more malevolent entities than himself. But Jack Thornton will find friends as well as enemies. He will meet the hauntingly beautiful Aiyanna, whom he encounters in a terrifying dream; and Brighid, the fiery red-haired goddess who loved him in a far-off time and place where he bore a storied name. He will also meet Sean Plunkett, once a feared IRA gunman and soldier of fortune, and now his guide on the Way of the Hero. This then, is the beginning of Jack Thornton's tale, the first book of The Omniverse Chronicles.