A Second Too Late
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Last published Wed, Jun 4, 2014
North America, as we know it has all but ceased to exist. Instead of the former land of peace formed on principles of freedom and protection to all mankind, it is now an instigator of war and feared harbinger of death and destruction.
Hayden Skye, a young but ambitious soldier, has recently been called to serve in the Armed Forces Division of North America. Brash, cocky, but with an insatiable belief in the ideals of old and skill to back his desire to do what is right, Hayden is one of the last great hopes for a means to end the incessant violence.
But, when he's sent off to a training island just off the coast of Western North America, an island enshrouded in mystery and lore, Hayden soon discovers that all is not as it seems. He's soon thrown into a dangerous game and in the midst of it all, chances upon an ominous discovery, entangled with a web of lies and deception, that threatens to uproot every ideal that he's ever believed in.
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