Four monthsafter the deadly overlord Molek has been banished beyond the city limits ofMasonville, Texas, Owen Edmonds’s crucial mission to save livesescalates when seven Cosmic Rulers of darkness close in to decimate his town—andnation. As the battle between good and evil culminates in an epic standoff,Owen and his girlfriend, Ray Anne, must make the decision of a lifetime: willthey face their fears or run? TheDefiance is the third book in the Delusion series.

By March of Owen Edmonds's senior year, eleven students at Masonville High School have committed suicide. Amid the media frenzy and chaos, Owen tries to remain levelheaded—until he endures his own near-death experience and wakes to a distressing new reality.The people around him suddenly appear to be shackled and enslaved.Owen frantically seeks a cure for what he thinks are crazed hallucinations, but his delusions become even more sinister. An army of hideous, towering beings, unseen by anyone but Owen, are preying on his girlfriend and classmates, provoking them to self-destruction.Owen eventually arrives at a mind-bending conclusion: he's not imagining the evil—everyone else is blind to its reality. He must warn and rescue those he loves . . . but this proves to be no simple mission. Will he be able to convince anyone to believe him before it's too late?Owen's heart-pounding journey through truth and delusion will force him to reconsider everything he...