Echoes: The Ten Sigma Series Book 3
Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, elements of horror, some sex, adult language.
In the flickering light of the makeshift hospital room, Nick stares at his wife Mary, who is losing a long, expensive battle against a mysterious illness.
Besides the frailty of her form, he knows something is wrong but can’t put his finger on what it is. Instead of confronting her, he heads home to plan their next trip for a cure.
The next morning, he receives word of her death. Distraught and disbelieving, he rushes back to the care center, only to discover the terrible news is true.
As he cleans out her room, he finds a gray card with the glowing text “30578A.” It’s the device she’s been trying to hide from him during the past year.
Even though all rational thought says to let her go, Nick can’t push aside his suspicions about her death.
He doggedly pursues the origins of the device which leads him into the clandestine world of a top-secret military program. When he confronts a government official, he discovers Mary isn’t truly gone. Her consciousness has been downloaded from her dying flesh and placed into a virtual universe to create super-soldiers.
While the odds are small, the promise is that if she completes all the requirements, she can return in a new healthy body.
Given that she can’t even kill a spider, Nick knows Mary needs help and, in his rush to be with her, does the unthinkable.
He volunteers for the Ten Sigma Program.
After the government representatives download him, he’s stuffed with martial knowledge, while his memories, including those of his wife, are slowly erased.
Then he discovers the true nature of what ten sigma means.
Designed to create the greatest warriors the world has ever seen through violent evolution, the journey back to the real world is winning an endless series of life-and-death scenarios.
Soon, Nick is struggling for his very survival, battling his own demons, and fighting to remember the very reason he entered the program.
Renegade: The Ten Sigma Series Book 2
Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language.
The Ten Sigma Program produces the greatest fighters the Earth has ever known through the harshest training method ever devised, so harsh, it’s not even possible in the real world.
Candidates for the Ten Sigma Program have their minds downloaded into a virtual universe, where they are stuffed with every aspect of martial knowledge and then sent to fight in countless life-and-death scenarios.
Only those who reach the mythical score of ten sigmas may graduate.
Mary has beaten the infinitesimal odds of survival and returned to the real world in a new, healthy body.
She has one goal: to reunite with her family.
But in the program, her memories were erased and now she only has an inkling of her former life.
And strange happenings surround her rebirth.
Besides awakening in a windowless room that’s trembling from the explosions of a pitched battle, something is wrong with her download into the new body. While physically, she’s beyond human limits in terms of strength, quickness, coordination, and all the senses, she has wild headaches and is prone to passing out.
Worse, a nightmare from the virtual universe has accompanied her mind into the real world and is preventing her from regaining her past.
As she battles for survival, she realizes one thing: The world she has returned to is far different from the one she left.
And with greater obstacles and foes than anyone or anything she faced in the Ten Sigma Program.
Ten Sigma: The Ten Sigma Series Book 1
Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, horror elements, some sex, some language.
In future America, the downloaded people in the Ten Sigma Program fight endless battles. The struggles span all possibilities: face-offs with knives and clubs, skirmishes as Roman legionaries, pitched WW1 trench warfare, duels with ultra-modern hypersonic weapons, and everything in between. The combatants who live are rewarded with another battle until they reach the unreachable score of ten sigmas. Those who die are expunged from the system, gone forever. The methods, so harsh they go beyond anything possible in the real world, are necessary for the end goal: violent evolution to produce the greatest warriors in all of human history.
Who would choose such a fate?
Those with no hope.
On a wintry night, a government representative presents Mary, who is dying of incurable cancer, with the offer: a second chance at life and for those completing the requirements, a return to the real world in a fresh, healthy body. To save her family from bankrupting medical bills, she accepts.
After her consciousness is transferred into the virtual universe of the program, her essence is ripped apart and her memories shattered. She’s reassembled as the perfect killer.
As the life-and-death contests begin, she discovers the true nature of what lies ahead. But, she won’t surrender to the impossible and grimly embarks on the journey to return to her family while trying to save her soul.