Blue Light

Book three of the Blue Light series begins four years after Doug and Annie McArthur are forced to take refuge in the Maine Wilderness. Ariel has grown into a beautiful and gifted child wise beyond her years. Their life, although hard, has been peaceful and relatively quiet. But the tide is about to turn. When they sense something isn't right in the world, Doug leaves the shelter of their wilderness cabin to investigate. In a heartbeat, their quiet life is shattered by an unspeakable violence, and once again, they are forced to run for their lives, this time to a place where they will encounter a truth more fantastic than anything they could ever have imagined. Here, in a world turned upside down by evil, they will have to find the courage to let their daughter, Ariel, go, for she is the chosen one, the only person on Earth capable of venturing into the darkness beyond the Blue Light where salvation for the human race may or may not await.

What happens when the stories we've been told fail us?In ten provocative and unsettling tales, Pedro Ponce grapples with the human instinct to create a narrative out of disparate experiences. The Devil and the Dairy Princess interrogates the power of stories to impact us for good or ill. We are all taught that love is destined to happen with our soul mate and that hard work eventually leads to success. But when faced with circumstances that no longer fit the chosen narrative, some protagonists cling to their outmoded stories with greater fervor, while others realize the old stories no longer suffice, so they choose to inhabit a new reality in stories yet to be told. Perfect for any reader who enjoys literary realism or speculative fiction, The Devil and the Dairy Princess reveals the episodic history of humanity's romance with narrative, from first love to breakup to hopeful reconciliation.