David Krist

All of our lives, we've been told that life isn't fair, yet no one has ever bothered to tell us why. Is life merely a culmination of our failures, compounded one after another, or are things truly beyond our control? Is there a God? If so, is He truly out there, looking on us lovingly, or does He despise us and laugh as we stumble around in the darkness of our humanity? The lives of four individuals unravel as they face a world of consequences both thrust upon them and as a product of their choices. Either way, reality is the result.

Now that the bulk of Defiants have either vanished in "The Taking" or been found and executed by order of the Sovereign Leader, the New World has finally come to know true peace. But when a young New World soldier's amnesia begins to wear off, the real truth about where he came from begins to unravel, and the real truth about what the world has become begins to unravel with it. When framed for the murder of the Sovereign Leader, this young soldier must now choose who he is: A51-317, Sovereign Soldier of the New World, or Paul Wooden, Defiant. He must choose whether he can still embrace the New World knowing what he knows now or if he must shift his allegiance. He must choose what he knows for sure. The choice is his: will he be Defiant?

In order to win a promotion at work, a frustrated father tricks his dysfunctional family into a week of family therapy.