Crimson Tribune Saga

In the sequel to Czaritan: Book One of the Crimson Tribune Saga, Tracy, Rush, Benji, Rita, and Darla are back and living a post-Jancrest life at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID progresses, changes big and small affect each of their lives. Tracy makes shocking discoveries about China, while Benji faces new hurdles in his job as a facility engineer at a local hospital. Rita and Darla struggle with the shifts in their volunteering and elementary school schedules, as Rush attempts to maintain structure in the day-to-day schedule at the offices of the Crimson Tribune. COVID-19 definitely leaves its mark on the Ripleys and former Jancrestians in Cathay Combat: Book Two of the Crimson Tribune Saga.

Tracy Marinetti Ripley is a journalist for the Crimson Tribune, and she loves a challenge, researching and writing about the subjects others avoid or don't see. The Crimson Tribune is owned by Russell "Rush" Ripley. Rush keeps tabs on every single story published in the Tribune but isn't able to keep Tracy within his conservative restrictions. Tracy takes a nature assignment just to keep Rush happy, but while deep in the woods, capturing nature, Tracy encounters a cute, little girl, dirty and all alone, dressed in a burlap bag. She follows the singing beauty, as the little girl chases a butterfly around a boulder and disappears. Tracy's interest is piqued, and she keeps coming back to the woods until she finally meets the little girl who takes Tracy to her home in the underground city of Jancrest.