No Way Home

Book descriptionBorn between two nations but accepted by neither, C. R. grows up knowing the meaning of rejection. He asks humanity for one simple thing: a home. Instead, both sides reject him because he does not fit their definitions of who belongs. So C. R. builds his own answer. Brilliant beyond the limits of ordinary humanity, he constructs a technological sanctuary at the heart of Lake Tobias, raises an impenetrable dome, creates advanced humans, and becomes a force no army, fleet, aircraft, missile, or weapon can defeat.
The nations unite against him, convinced that they are fighting a monster who intends to dominate the world. But they misunderstand him. C. R. never wanted a throne. He wanted humanity to become human again. As the conflict escalates, suffering, hatred, corruption, selfishness, discrimination, and division are exposed for what they are. Former enemies begin sharing food, protecting one another, grieving together, and seeing beyond borders, wealth, bloodlines, and flags.
The enemy they feared becomes the force that finally makes them recognize one another as human beings. And C. R. never falls. There is no heroic defeat, no final weapon capable of destroying him. Instead, the war ends when humanity itself changes. When people abandon their hatred and divisions, unite, and begin treating one another as human beings, C. R. finally lowers his defenses. His mission is complete.
The monster was never seeking humanity's destruction. He was waiting for humanity to become human.