Lynn Terelle

The House of Payne Lynn Terelle

"It looked at the smoking gun in its hands and frowned. What had just happened here? People were running and screaming everywhere. Large men dressed in black were shouting and surrounding it. On instinct, it dropped the weapon and turned to flee, but as it spun, more determined men crowded in. It felt rough hands dragging it down. It was sure to die. It threw back its head and let out a chilling wail. All was lost." In this chilling sequel to The Book of Daniel, the arrest of Justice Payne for the murder of King Daniel sets in motion a series of highly charged events that lead to a dramatic showdown between reason and moral decay. Humankind, long ago altered by the mad experiments of Father Payne, has once again divided itself into the privileged and the persecuted, with Perfections and Atrocities at either end of the social spectrum. When the birth of Atrocities, those born naturally but without gender, begins to outpace those of Perfections, naturally born boys and girls, King Daniel outlaws natural childbirth, commanding that all babies shall again be created as clones. Emmit Payne, now older and wiser, has raised the abandoned Atrocities in his Cavewhere they have been highly educated, including training in the martial arts. An underground rebellion on their behalf has begun, and Daniel's son, Alexander, hopes opinion will turn against the Atrocities when one murders his father in plain sight of all. However, looks can be deceiving, and in this world manipulation is the rule of the day. What really happened? Is Justice truly guilty, and is Alexander the true heir to Daniel's throne? The battle for equality pits Emmit against Alexander who plans his attack with the help of a newly cloned and impressionable Marilyn Monroe. Emmit's love for Marilyn may prove to be his Achilles' heel. Alexander's ignorance of whom and what here ally is may be his downfall. The calculated chess game that ensues between common man and brilliant warrior