Absolution: The Singularity: The Final Solution to God, Guilt and Grief?

by Craige McMillan, Diogo Lando (Illustrator)

Pope Pious is not whom he appears to be. He is traveling from Switzerland to a remote orphanage in Brazil under an assumed name—because the church hierarchy in South America wants him gone. But someone even more important has given him this assignment. Odessa is in love with an admiral. His ships, far off the coast of Alaska, fly no flag. Now he has asked her to go in his place—to a Brazilian orphanage they once visited together. The children there are dying. She takes a handwritten list of names he passes to her. “Oh, my God!” Odessa whispers, as she reads the names. “I know what you want me to do!” Natavia has just finished the Christmas Eve service for eight-thousand people at her Colorado church. They’ve all left. She’s alone. She sits quietly in the senior pastor’s office, handling the knife as she decides whether to end her life—and the fraud it has been. On the frozen pond outside her office, she sees a girl skating. The girl looks very much like Julie, her daughter. But Julie died eight years ago. The supernatural has invaded our world. Will technology give us control over the veil of eternity?

268 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 19, 2017

About the author

Craige McMillan is an American writer. He grew up in the rolling farmland and small towns of the Midwest, which served farmers and provided railroad transportation for their crops. His family later moved to southern California. There he finished high school and met the girl who would become his wife. They both attended college, where he studied history during the social turbulence of the early 1970s.

He followed the same route to novel writing that many other authors have taken. He wrote articles, news stories, and later worked in signals intelligence overseas during the Cold War. When he returned to the United States, he worked in large-scale computer systems where he did programming, database design, computer security and disaster recovery.

Craige now lives in what is still cowboy country, the high desert American West, with his wife of forty-some years, and a Belgian Shepherd, to whom he reads his first drafts.