Carl the Heretic

ISBN-13-978-1493525416

​

Even for a nineteen-year-old, shape-shifting alien, Carl has got a lot of problems. But he's gotten used to depending on himself ever since he was banished to Earth for a heresy crime he didn't commit. His superiors, finding themselves against a deadline, give Carl three direct orders:

1. Escort and protect the prophetic “Chosen One,” a sixteen-year-old earthling named Dash Davenport, to fight the Doom Mob—an army that has invaded Carl's home planet.

2. Visit his dying mother—a woman who once tried to kill him.

3. Search for “The Circlette”—a mysterious weapon that no one has ever seen before.

That would be enough to give any guy a headache, but Carl also has to cope with his psychic girlfriend who only tells him what he wants to hear, a spaceship full of weirdoes who don't seem to have the wits to fly their rickety ship across the street—let alone to another planet—and an intergalactic assassin from the Doom Mob named Morgandy.

When Carl discovers that Dash Davenport is a pacifist and is planning to read a feeble speech about peace to the army of killers he's been “chosen” to fight, Carl begins to think that the prophecy is as dubious as the lottery numbers in a fortune cookie. With the fate of his planet at stake, he secretly teams up with a deranged librarian to devise a plan to defeat the army and their secret weapon, disobeying the prophecy and risking a death sentence for treason.

What Carl doesn't realize is that Dash and Morgandy have secrets of their own.