Faithwalker

Seemingly trapped forever with everything raging against Vaughn, crushing his spirit, his anger steadily grows. Faced with the decision to allow himself to be utterly, debased and survive, or fight and die, he chooses to fight. Stephanie is no better off as, she sits upon the edge of the sword that is her father. A sword set to destroy all she ever loved, including her own newfound self-respect. But, Arlupo enters Stephanie's life with a special unknown presence, and this sixteen-year-old girl must match wits against Stephanie's misogynistic father in a battle that must be fought for life, itself. Only Arlupo knows the truth about Stephanie, what she really is, and that it might require Arlupo, to sacrifice all she's ever known dear. Never has there been a truer, more gut-wrenching friendship. More pain than can ever be imagined, and battles fit for any nightmare, there is yet real life in being a faithwalker...no matter what.

When true love between Stephanie and Vaughn leads them to totally different fateful decisions, their conflict could mean their deaths. Watching this from above, Mafferan and Yinauqua argue over what can be done, which dangerously entangles them in ethereal High Councilor ScrabaGag's plans to bring everyone under his dominion. All the while, Jargono continues his plans for world domination, unaware of the deeper consequences, and that if he destroys Vaughn and Stephanie, he will eventually destroy himself, too. ScrabaGag patiently delights in the slow progression of his manipulations and his rise to ever greater power. Two passionate teenagers face a world of evil, desperately striving for the life they know is real, yet knowing they are way overmatched by their enemies. Understanding the true meaning of goodness is their only solace as they bravely face their deaths.

Stephanie, keeper of the Tree of Life, carries Vaughn's child, of the people of True Words. A child conceived of True Meaning and True Words. The Ethereal charges Heaven with a Truce violation, demanding they destroy the child before birth. Neither Heaven, nor any on Earth can help. Left alone, Stephanie and Vaughn fight to protect the life of their unborn child, but if Stephanie gives birth, the Truce is broken, and the ethereal demons will invade Earth, and Vaughn and Stephanie can't allow this, either. They are caught between Right and Right. They can't kill their child, and they can't endanger the world. Only a faithwalker can find a solution. Faithwalkers walk through all realities by and with meaning. Vaugh travels to Heaven, down into the Ethereal, and over the Earth to find a solution but discovers there are even far greater dangers, while Stephanie battles Earthly human-demon hybrids, ethereal gargoyles, and ethereal fire breathing dragons, all thrown against her to destroy a most special child.

Stephanie and Vaughn kept pushing it to the back of their minds, while so many other responsibilities pressed upon them. They would prepare later. But the Anti-Christ's arrival surprises them and he devastates Stephanie while Vaughn was supposed to protect her. Neither Stephanie nor Vaughn know how to overcome the terrible harm. Eight-year-old Lana is given a vision to rescue strange children from another country, but Carla tells her and seven-year-olds Lynnara and Rebecca that they can't tell anyone. Because if Vaughn or Stephanie finds out, all will be lost. And while seventeen-year-old Mandy, Carla's younger sister, is charged to protect them and keep their secret, everything spins wildly out of control. The Alpha can now see into Heaven and have plotted how to bring Mafferan down through his wife's inability to control her love. Yinauqua knows she's vulnerable and unable to handle herself when her visions of disaster fall upon her daughter Stephanie down below. The Season has changed and nothing in prescriptive Christianity can help the faithwalkers overcome the terrible evils befalling them. But the Lord Jesus has more for them than they know if they can just rise above their pains and defeat. They all have to as the Lord has placed the fates of many souls into their hands.

For thousands of years Satan planned for this moment, pitting himself and all his demons against the mere mortal souls of a few good people, but also making them pawns in a much larger game to bring down Heaven itself. According to the Father of lies, the weakness of the perfect love the Lord Jesus died to give us is that it's indeed perfect. And when Satan tests it beyond anyone's utter imagination, beyond all mortal abilities, he knows they'll fail. But faithwalkers Vaughn and Stephanie and ten Sisters know how to do something Satan doesn't: to walk in the unknown, to trust the utter depths of goodness the Lord Jesus makes them to be, then to exceed it beyond any understanding of how to make the terrible choices that will trap them. Who will live, who will die, who will face a fate worse than death? Who will sacrifice? Find out in this final book of the Faithwalker Series, in The Legacy of the Tree of Life and the Final Sacrifice