Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)

by Michael R. Fletcher

Die with your boots on, and keep a few coins stashed in those boots. Die with a weapon in hand and two more within easy reach. For when you pass from this world, you’ll be glad of the things you take with you.

“We are, each and every one of us, addicted to chaos. Gorgeous, devouring, chaos. Every visceral pleasure comes from the moment when we truly lose control. That moment when our minds white out and thought vanishes, when the fire within us devours all rationality. Sex. Fire. It’s all the same.”