The Cultist: A Novel

"Similar to The Hunger Games...€ -- Mark E. Douglas, Jr.

"Well told suspense." -- V.K. Browning

How do you save a lost child no one believes exists?

When young hacker Takara meets Tyler in an online fantasy game, she doubts the boy's story of escape from a cult group's mass suicide in the New Mexico wilderness. The police find no evidence of Tyler's existence and warn Takara it's a hoax, or worse, a trap.

But the death of her younger brother in an earthquake years ago still haunts Takara. As Tyler's laptop computer dies and he loses communication with the outside world, Takara races from high-tech Tokyo to the rugged Gila National Forest to save him. However, cult leader Silas also tracks the boy, determined to kill the only surviving witness to his crime.

Who will find Tyler first?