Initiation: Changels Genesis Part One

The alien infiltration was almost perfect. Most people went about their lives believing the news, and that wars, child abuse, white supremacy, genocide and pandemics were the happenstance of their imperfect world.

There is only one obscure clue. In 2009 a house fire in far off New Zealand where twenty people considered UFO freaks by their neighbours, are missing, presumed dead. Only one teenager has apparently survived and he is being interviewed by police. They need him contained. Quietly. This is his story.

Sam Kahu is the New Zealand Maori teenager, and he is not talking. To lesbian Detective Constable Sue Williams from youth aid he seems both strangely together and strangely worried by something that has nothing to do with him becoming an orphan. And how does he seem to know more about her than she really likes. Is Sam mad, or can he prove his claims?

Initiation is the first book of Changels Genesis: Origins of Resistance, a single story in six parts. This is the origin story of the Changels: six teens with remarkable powers and technology engaged in a bitter struggle for the peaceful multicultural future of the earth. Some may call it fantasy, others science fiction. Some might call it superheroes. There are elements too of coming-of-age, travel, romance, mystery, spiritual, and large dollops of fact. This is a story that dodges in and out of the truth in its exploration of themes surrounding our understanding of genetic inheritance.

A story about racism, pandemics and globalisation in a time of racism, pandemics and globalisation.