The End of the Quest?

by M.E. Brines

Cassie's stepmother is dying and wants to see her husband Stuart Mackenzie one last time before she goes, but the retired ex-CIA agent is off searching for the Lost Ark of the Covenant--all part of his decades-long obsession with the Agarthi. Finding his notes, Cassie sets out to track him down before it's too late. Her quest takes her to Israel, a monastery in Jordan, and finally to war-torn Ethiopia where their actions trigger events leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Will the Agarthi spirit lords finally be defeated? And will they make it home before it's too late to say goodbye?

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2018

About the author

M.E. Brines spent the Cold War assembling atomic artillery shells and preparing to unleash the Apocalypse (and has a medal to prove it.) But when peace broke out, he turned his fevered, paranoid imagination to other pursuits. Designer of more than twenty sci-fi wargames and the Fantasy Nations play-by-e-mail game (all available below) he spends his spare time scribbling yet another steampunk romance occult adventure novel, which despite certain rumors absolutely DOES NOT involve time-traveling Nazi vampires! (Not this time, anyway.)