The Messiah Paradigm

About the Book

In the history of the cosmos, twelve hundred Saviors have come to as many worlds over 13 million years. All have suffered painful, bloody deaths – ranging from thousand-cuts cannibalism to crucifixion. Their end goal is always to remove the stain of collective sin by making the ultimate sacrifice. This is part of the Messiah Paradigm.

Now, eighteen-year old Kendra Cayley of St. Mary’s Girls Academy in Columbia, Maryland is to be the next in the line of Messiah succession. Only she doesn’t know this.

Until she’s abducted one afternoon by a trio of aliens committed to taking her to a brutal planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. There, she’s designated the “Messiah” for fourteen million descendants of humans taken through human history. In preparation for her mission, she undergoes training in esoteric arts and a forty day sojourn in the planet’s largest desert..

On “Planet G”, Kendra finds humans divided into dozens of fractious guilds, none of which trust her. These include: a Religious Guild originating from Puritans abducted in the 17th century, who believe in crucifying false Christs; a Science-Engineering Guild convinced that pandering to Messiahs serves only to perpetuate superstition; and a Female Dominant Guild (Victoria Women’s Dominion) that requires gladiatorial combat for would-be Saviors as a prerequisite to preaching and regards sex slavery as suitable punishment for failures;

Apart from the combative guilds, Kendra’s forced to confront her own imminent physical pain and destruction, and strives to understand why certain worlds and beings are irredeemable.

About the Author

Daeron Shane was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 6, 1946 and holds a Bachelors degree in Astronomy and Masters in Physics. He joined the Peace Corps in 1971 and spent four years in Barbados, West Indies, teaching physics, mathematics and general science. He remained sixteen more years, co-founding the island’s Philosophical Society, and writing fortnightly columns on astronomy and special articles on metaphysics under the pseudonym “Theosophus”. His hobbies include: GO, computer chess, philosophy of science, and comparative religion. This novel originated during a debate, when an Anglican priest in Barbados asked him to consider the possibility of “multiple Messiahs”.