From the USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author, comes a compelling story of supernatural warfare in a harsh alternate version of Earth. Contains strong romantic elements. Apocalypse. Supernatural romance. He will be despised. He will be despised by absolutely everyone. The shadow of the Sharpies hangs over Revik's head as a constant reminder of what a dark warrior he used to be. Hiding in monastic caves after leaving the network of terrorist seers, Revik no longer knows who he is and what the meaning of his life is. When a delegation of renowned holy warriors—Adipan—appears and asks for his help, he is initially tempted to say no... until they tell him that it is Kali who needs saving—the same Kali who freed Revik from darkness when no one else could lay a finger on him. didn’t hit a finger. Revik agrees to fly to the other side of the world, to run into his former friends, the Sharpies, including his former partner Therian, who clearly harbored a grudge against Revik’s desertion. When they come to kill him or take him back, Revik faces the demons of his past and new temptations. He is faced again and again with the choice of which side he will fight for, the light or the dark, and what he is willing to sacrifice to become the man he desperately wants to be. He ends up thinking that he has nothing left, that you can lose. As it turned out, he was wrong about this too. “The Defector” is a prequel to the “Bridge and the Sword” series, it is recommended to read it after book 7, “The Bridge” or after the entire series. This book also tells another side of the events that take place in the prequel Trickster.