When The Gods Fail: Vindication

Book three of the series finds Bryce Tyrell and his team thrown into the cauldron of war, trained yet untrained for what they are about to experience. From the onset of the mission, the team finds themselves alone – a planet, it seems, designed to kill them, an enemy doing everything it can to see them dead and the loyalties to the team of the civilization that threw them into this grinder questionable. War favors no one, especially the unprepared and Bryce will find out very quickly just how unprepared they are to engage in a war they know nothing about and had no part in starting.

But they will adapt and they will persevere, even as the war itself suddenly explodes into a frenzied maelstrom of battles and skirmishes between two combatants who will give no quarter and expect none in return. Bryce and his team will adapt and they will learn – finding out quickly who they think they can trust and learning the real enemy may not be the enemy you see every time. Meanwhile, others are drawn into the fray, their own lives becoming intertwined in the tapestry and pageantry of death, destruction and politics that were borne from a secret deep in the past none of them are aware of and one that might change the dynamics of everything everyone on the planet may think they understand.

A time of darkness approaches, desperation becomes the mantel many wear and fate may not be as kind as some would hope or as cruel as some might believe. If Bryce and the team are to survive this terrible ordeal, they will have to draw upon hidden reserves of strength, valor, and honor – reserves many of them never knew they possessed. But for one of the team, fate has determined a new course – a course from which she can never return. And the changes she will undergo may very well be the canvas of destruction that writes Bryce and team’s epitaph.

For those who survive everything they will encounter, there may come a time in the future where they might find peace. Or they may find fate has more in store for them and realize those who do not survive were perhaps the luckiest of all.