Overview
When the aliens rose from the sea, even the Vatican had to go to war.
African Pope Julius III expected his papacy to confront rival powers and old earthly enemies, not a literal war against invaders from the deep. But the Fish are winning, striking around the globe and learning from every battle. As the Church fights to reclaim its moral credibility in a shattered world, the war grinds inland toward Chicago.
When the city is abandoned to reinforce the embattled East Coast, three unlikely souls stay behind to pick up the Crusade: Samuel Weston, a spy who thought he had left that life behind, and Zofia Zelazowska, the last officer of the Guard still standing, and James Phan, a priest with his own bureaucrats to fight. Faith, cunning, and sheer stubborn courage are all they have left against an enemy that owns the ocean and grows deadlier by the day.
Book Ten of the LAND&SEA series, On Tiber's Edge brings a bold new voice to the saga. Dragon Award-nominated author Declan Finn joins Blaine L. Pardoe's bestselling alien-invasion universe to fuse mecha-charged military science fiction with a gripping, distinctly Catholic story of duty, sacrifice, and redemption.
Author Bio
Declan Finn is a Dragon Award-nominated novelist and one of the most prolific voices in contemporary Catholic fiction, with more than thirty novels spanning military science fiction, urban fantasy, horror, and thrillers. His supernatural thriller Hell Spawn, the first Saint Tommy NYPD novel, won the Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance's Book of the Year, and his novel Honor at Stake earned a Dragon Award nomination.
A born-and-bred New Yorker now writing from Texas, Finn is known for relentless pacing, meticulously choreographed action, and an unapologetically Catholic moral vision that sets his work apart in the genre. He brings that sensibility to LAND&SEA, joining the bestselling alien-invasion universe created by Blaine L. Pardoe to explore how faith, duty, and the Church itself would answer an enemy risen from the sea.
Host of the Catholic Geek radio show and a fixture in the independent science fiction community, Finn writes fast-moving, high-stakes fiction for readers who want their military science fiction with conviction and their heroes with a soul. On Tiber's Edge marks his entry into one of military SF's fastest-growing series.
