Infernal Eighteen - Paperback

by Don A. Martinez (Author)

Alanna Sharpe is going to Hell ... In hiding for half a year after discovering her father Cole Sharpe has become General Tyrelius Scolar, her feared enemy, she is brought back into the fold of the insurgency against the New Empire of America by Gabe Francis ... a man she distrusts because of his habit of holding back vital information. Her friends still support her in her mission to reunite her family, but that mission takes an unexpected turn when the insurgents capture Scolar. Gabe reveals to Alanna that Scolar is indeed Cole, but is also simply a body lacking its original soul, that of her father. In a quiet moment, alone with the comatose body, Alanna catches snippets of a message. "Find me ..." The search for her father's soul will cross over many planes of existence, from the world of the living to the mystical realm of Avalon, ultimately leading into the Inferno of Hell. Led through the many circles of damnation by a former family enemy-turned-guide, Alanna must now endure all of Hell's torments and follow her father's path if she ever wants to be reunited with him. To have any chance of reuniting her family, Alanna must bring her father back from damnation's grasp.

Author Biography

The son of two 20-year Navy vets, Don A. Martinez spent much of his formative years around the Pacific Rim before settling in the continental U.S., first in Michigan and New York before eventually landing in Texas. He has been writing all of his life, getting his start in elementary school as a two-time Young Authors selection in Oak Harbor, Washington. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in writing and a Master of Arts degree in English from Buffalo State College (SUNY-College at Buffalo), where he wrote his thesis on application of mythic storytelling techniques to the modern media. Currently, he lives with his wife, daughter, and four cats in Texas, where he is a college English instructor.