The Search for Truth

Aliens to zombies amid a spirited romance populated the pages of The First Second Coming as it explored why people search the skies for messiahs and UFOs.

The Search for Truth takes on the science versus religion debate. Marlene Martindale and Chris Larson are now married, have an infant daughter, live in a small town, and are prospering from Chris’s expanding business that serves the neo-pagan community. Marlene's desire for spirituality has taken her from being a secular humanist to a follower of modern witchcraft, and her dream is to legitimize and popularize the faith by establishing a Wiccan religious center that can be a trip destination for worship, instruction, and even fun.

As if the financial and human capital required to plan and build the religious center were not enough, other life events insert themselves for better or worse, such as the following:

• The discovery that infant Olivia has inherited a blindness-causing condition that may or may not be curable.

• A lovably odd astrophysicist, whose sister and Marlene were once dear friends, tries to reunite the two women now that the sister seems to have beaten back a deadly cancer.

• Marlene restarts her psychotherapy practice aided by a new computer tool to treat her UFO encounter clients. Her first client, however, is someone she'd rather forget.

• Eye-opening developments unfold for the kindly alien guests. And more!

From Darwin's evolution to genetics to the search for the god particle to modern Wicca to the search for God in a less enigmatic universe, come join in the search for truth.