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By Kathy "Kay" Patterson

GENRE: Thriller
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Trapped in a cycle of karmic reincarnation, a secretive teen clashes with police and his tragic past when he comes out of hiding to save his current family from a vengeful killer he murdered 400 years ago.

SYNOPSIS:

DAVID STIRLING remembers the last time he died. Memories of his former life, of that tragic day surfaced when he was shoved in snow at the age of four. David remembers struggling to save his kidnapped family, witnessing their deaths as the SUV they were in was shoved over a snow-slick cliff in Colorado.

He remembers the man who murdered them, the man who murdered him: MALCOLM. David also knows why he was murdered. It involves his wife, the woman he loves and marries every lifetime since 1558.

Now in present day Wales, David is seventeen, unaware Malcolm is a bestselling author. David worries his current parents and sister over his obsession with a series of killings in the Unites States and UK that he charts on his bedroom wall. The chart shows Malcolm’s plan to eliminate David’s wife by murdering her female descendants to prevent her from reincarnating.

David’s sister MEGAN is part of that lineage. Megan knows David’s secret past, knows she’s on Malcolm’s hit list. Spooked my Malcolm’s most recent murder, Megan urges David go to police, to help them stop Malcolm, but David insists police need evidence, facts and motives that make sense. He can’t give them that. So Megan announces she’s going to Scotland Yard, insists she’ll tell them everything.

Rattled by Megan’s threat, David springs into action. He calls police, gives Detective Chief Inspector HADDLEY a motive Scotland Yard can work with, leaves Haddley with the task of finding and protecting some of Malcolm’s intended targets. David takes Megan to London. Always one step ahead, Malcolm gets to David’s current parents. He calls David, entices him home to save them.

David rushes home. He finds his father tied up, combats Malcolm, and discovers his mother dead. Malcolm escapes, kidnapping Megan, and police apprehend David for questioning. In police custody David struggles to convince police he’s their only hope to catch Malcolm. Having saved his current father, desperate to save his sister, David embraces his tragic past and uses forensics to convince Haddley to help him save Megan. David offers to bait Malcolm so Haddley and police can capture him alive.

David leads police to Scotland where he believes Malcolm is hiding out. They learn Malcolm has acquired the ancestral land of a rival clan that he slaughtered centuries earlier - the very spot where David and Malcolm’s karmic curse started – where David’s initially killed his father, Malcolm. The place where savagery, betrayal and murder spurred a curse. David lures Malcolm outside and a police sniper shoots Malcolm in the knee, but Malcolm anticipated this double-cross. As David races to the house to save his sister, Malcolm remote detonates explosives within the house. Frantic to save his sister, David scrambles inside the burning house. He finds Megan in the cellar, but they’re trapped as the house collapses above them.

Will they survive?

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