The Last Summer
In the sweltering summer of 1986, the greatest threat to humanity isn’t the Cold War. It’s buried beneath Carmel, Georgia. For eleven-year-olds Jody Whitmire and David Dempsey, summer is supposed to be about comic books, walkie-talkies, and hiding out in their treehouse at the edge of Harmon’s Gorge. But Carmel is a dying mill town, and a suffocating, unnatural heat has settled over the valley. David’s father, the ruthless town patriarch Saul Dempsey, has sold his soul—and his town—to a shadowy geopolitical syndicate known as the Directorate. Deep beneath the gorge, they are drilling into the bedrock to open a valve to the Abyss, attempting to establish a dark, counterfeit cosmic mountain right in the heart of Georgia. As a necrotic black oil begins to seep into the town, infecting the minds of the citizens and poisoning Jody’s father, the local sheriff, the boys realize they are on their own. Armed with nothing but their bikes, a deep-rooted loyalty, and a newfound faith, Jody and David find themselves hunted by professional killers and malevolent spiritual forces. Their only refuge is a small storefront church led by Pastor Ron Bennett, a man who knows that the battle for Carmel isn’t against flesh and blood. As the threshold to the Abyss threatens to tear the world apart, two boys must stand on the front lines of an ancient, cosmic war. It was supposed to be a summer of childhood innocence. It became a fight for their souls.
The Baja Contingency
THE TEMPORAL LOCK IS CRACKING. THE ABYSS IS WAKING.
Seven years ago, a supernatural shockwave froze the Erebus II offshore drilling rig in a pocket of time off the coast of Baja, Mexico. Eighteen-year-old David Bennett thought the war was behind him—until a subterranean corporate excavation thousands of miles away cracks the dimensional seal.
As his dormant spiritual sight violently awakens, David discovers a terrifying truth: the frozen crew aboard the rig isn’t dead. They are spiritually awake, trapped in the Unseen Realm and tormented by an ancient intelligence. With the temporal lock thawing and the black ropes of the Tehom inching closer to the surface, David must stow away on a ghost ship and shatter the anchor before the Nephilim hive-mind is fully unleashed.
Uncovering the Truth: Series F.A.Q.
Yes! While each book features its own distinct plot and location, there is an overarching narrative. The Last Summer introduces the supernatural conspiracy from ground zero in Carmel, Georgia, while The Baja Contingency expands that conflict onto a global scale. Reading them in order gives you the full scope of the unseen realm.
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In ancient Near Eastern thought, mountains were the dwelling places of divine beings—the literal intersection between heaven and earth. The series draws heavily on the biblical view of locations like Eden and Mount Hermon not just as geographical places, but as spiritual ground zeros where the ancient cosmic rebellion first began.
The fiction is driven by my imagination, but the spiritual entities are rooted in rigorous historical and theological research. The series explores the Divine Council worldview, viewing entities like the Nachash not as fairy-tale creatures, but as deeply ancient, rebellious spiritual beings working to manipulate human history.
It is a supernatural thriller with high-concept cosmic themes. If you enjoy the adrenaline and spiritual warfare of authors like Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker, combined with the mythic and theological depth of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, this series is written exactly for you.