The Eklektos and the Antichrist fight for the soul of the world.
Minca is an ordinary teenage girl about to start her senior year at Franklin High School in
Seattle, WA. She struggles with self-esteem, and at her seventeenth birthday party she blows out
her candles wishing to be comfortable in her own skin and to have a boyfriend. All of that
changes after touching an antique journal.
She is astral-projected to Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul on May 29, 1453, during the fall of
the Byzantine Empire. She witnesses Turkish soldiers taking parishioners captive, and her
ancestor, Father Matthew, a Greek Orthodox priest, disappears into the altar wall with the Holy
Communion vessels. Once she returns to the present, Minca learns that her dad is part of a group
of priests called the Skopoi, whose job is to watch for the Antichrist. The Skopoi tell her she is
the Eklektos (the chosen one in Greek). They explain that Nero (the Antichrist) has been released
and needs to open two more portals while increasing war, strife, anger, and division, until the last
one, which will release the false prophet. If he succeeds, humankind will become servants of the
Devil and his demons.
While it seems impossible for anything to be normal, Minca must still attend high school. There,
she meets Cuauhtémoc, an exchange student from Mexico with unusual, glowing eyes. She is
immediately drawn to him, but is unsure of who he is. Until later, when she finds out he is part of
an Aztec werewolf pack that is surprisingly Orthodox Christian and there to fight alongside her.
They fall in love, but their love faces challenges, partly because he isn’t allowed to marry non-
werewolves.
Amid her forbidden love and spiritual attacks from Nero, Minca must rely on her Orthodox
Christian faith and her father’s guidance to return the Holy Spirit to Hagia Sophia in the form of
the Holy Light from the Church of the Holy Resurrection (Sepulcher) to free her ancestor and
save the world.
This is book one of the Eklektos trilogy.