With a decaying corpse washing up on a secluded beach, and a woman from the Renaissance era flinging an infant off the cliff above it, the heroes know they are in for a death-defying journey that will embrace the very source of death itself.

The origin of human darkness in their world is actually an entirely other world, replete with soulless duplicates of themselves, ready to conquer and enslave everything they previously fought for and loved.

Such is the life they would bring upon this world, that the legendary team must confront the true stakes of their ongoing conflict.

With Smiley and Seraphim now squarely on their side, and a naïve but gutsy police captain, whose induction into the cabal’s deepest secrets opens the heroes to a wider reality, multiple soul-searching sacrifices are in store, including no less than the ultimate murder.

Says the book’s publisher: “The second Kristen comes into her own in the next transfixing installment of the Kristen-Seraphim Saga, but this at a higher price than any of her comrades would have guessed. As deeply troubled as the heroes of this radical de-mythology of myth find themselves, readers will both mourn and rejoice with them at every turn of the existential table round which the entirety of the human future is to be decided.”

Life Worthy of Life is book 5 of an 11-volume epic.