The Cubit
It all began in 2007 with a thumb in the air. A young hitchhiker, just trying to make it home after dropping out of college, accepts a ride from a man who would change his life and the world’s future.

The driver is Christopher Cower. The Cubit, which he took from its protected altar, hums with the hidden power to change those who might come in contact with it…to change them into everything bad, everything evil—the dark side of humanity. After all, that’s why the simple-looking crate had been guarded for centuries. It had changed the Maya, the Anasazi, and now, because of Cower, it would control a much larger population…a world set for the great Reckoning in the final month of 2012.

The Cubit speaks to the growing influence that Evil has on this Earth. It’s crazy out there. Good people have turned bad. Some things just don’t make sense anymore. It’s because those in power are not acting in your best interests. After all, they’ve been cubited. And you can’t tell the difference between what they were and what they’ve become.

It’s all a part of the plan—one created before man existed.

The Cubit introduces you to the heroes and heroines, to innocence and ignorance, to faith, fear and fortitude and it will take all of the above to survive the End of Days, one predicted by Revelation, the Hopi, the Ancient Maya and the Book of the Djed.

The Djed
What is a Creation Dagger? What is foretold in the Book of the Djed? What do Hitler and Napoleon and Manson have to do with Daykeepers? What happened to the Ancient Maya? The Anasazi?

In The Djed, the Trilogy moves from Port Aransas, Texas to Sedona, Arizona where ancient Native American tribes had kept the Cubit safe from the world for centuries. Cower took it from this sacred red rock land and now the survivors of Hurricane Antiago want to know why. What they find will change the way they understand faith and religion and science. What they find will lead them to Mexico, to the great city of Chichen Itza where the Observatory holds the secret, the salvation and death.

But it is at Tulum where, like the ancient Maya, the young Daykeeper will make his stand, find the Djed and fight off the retched Mexican Los Zetas, a gang of mercenary drug dealers all hyped up on heroin and the power of the Cubit.

0-Time
Why oh why did I decide to spread the third volume out into three pieces, creating a trilogy itself?
Why indeed.

One reason for the three-part third volume came about only after I started to write it in the summer of 2010. In May, a unique idea surfaced. Could I write these parts (at least the first two) as self-contained novelettes that did not necessitate the reader having consumed either of the first two books? Could I write it in a way that moved the story forward from the end of The Djed for my dedicated readers while providing an enticement for others to begin the Trilogy? This was a new challenge for me as a novelist so, of course, I accepted it.

0-Time: PUSH* can, indeed, be read and enjoyed without prior knowledge of the Trilogy’s main characters, plot, settings, revelations, etc. It introduces a new character to the epic who will make a lot of sense to those readers already involved, but who can also stand by himself in this (his) self-contained adventure.

However, in all of this reconfiguration of the story pieces, something frightening transpired. You see, there is this very horrible character lurking in the background of the Trilogy who is never really revealed in Antichrist flavor. Breaking the third volume into three pieces allows me to dive into this character head first, making the next part, 0-Time: Predicate, a truly horrific journey into the mind of absolute Evil. This frightens me because I am reminded of the consequences of sinking the mind into the portrayal of Evil to such an extent that realism is the result.

I am reminded of the short life of Heath Ledger.

And I am reminded that Evil as an actor can become...oh so real.