The City in the Sea

In Ruin, Book Three: The City in the Sea, Deke must train Beori’s peaceful people in the arts of war in order to overcome the incorporeal alien entity that feeds on the energy (or life force) of everything on Earth.

With Ourn Rohlvaag’s help, Deke addresses the psychological issues that have tormented him since his mother’s murder, hoping this will make his psyche less accessible to the alien invader, who by this time he realizes is seeking him out personally, attracted to his powerful psychic emanations. He begins to organize a modern army equipped with all Beori’s advanced technology to assault the enemy’s stronghold on the West Coast and set the Earth on a life-affirming path into the future.