S David Laurence

Project S David Laurence

It has become a holy war. The men in black, the most technologically sophisticated black ops team the world has ever seen, have slaughtered the heroic Ingu, the isolated native tribe whose wisdom has awakened Sarah in ways that she, as yet, has only just begun to explore. The men in black gunned them down, to the last woman and child, leaving Sarah with nothing but her memories of their brave faces, the effects of their profound spiritual teachings, and their holy idol: a mechanical device the soldiers call the "ILC". On fire with the faith of the Mountain God, Sarah has embraced the holy cause of the Ingu as her own. She has seized the ILC and has abandoned her cold intellect in favor of a path of faith. She has rejected the rational choice-an attempt to escape over land-and is headed deep into the heart of Qawalúcque's holy mountain. As it was prophesied. Her rational mind tells her that her mission is to deliver the ILC and the boy-genius, Rainy Hedgebrook, to civilization and to safety. But, in her heart, she knows that the true battle is the battle for her soul. There are demons lingering within her that are far more insidious than men in black uniforms. With a platoon of elite soldiers brutally hunting her, bent upon torturing and murdering her, Sarah has found herself cast adrift upon the waters rushing through an inexplicable woodland cavern-a massive underground valley lit with its own mysterious "sunlight" and alive with a teeming ecosystem of mysterious beasts. And concealing a hoard of deadly secrets. For an eternity, the truth that could set her soul free has been patiently waiting for her, deep in the heart of this lost world. All she has to do is fight her way to it.