In a tiny village in the Adirondack Mountains, fifteen year-old Righteous Markland snaps. Driven by madness and rage, he slaughters his own parents and the three children next door. In a final gesture of twisted glee, Righteous Markland slits his own throat. The year is 1911.
Nearly a century later, Dean Brasil, a once promising psychologist, hosts evening hypnosis shows aboard the luxury cruise liner, The Spirit of the Sea. What begins as harmless amusement for the unsuspecting participants quickly proves to be anything but amusing when, under hypnosis, three complete strangers are accidentally regressed to a place of terror and fear.
Baffled by their common recollection, Dean Brasil searches for the universal thread that binds them to each other. What he finds, however, forces them all to confront a haunting possibility.
Righteous Markland lives.
Come aboard! Meet the colorful, soulful characters who explore impossible possibilities while learning what it means to celebrate and heal and remember. Cruise to Retribution is an entertaining adventure filled with humor and sex and challenge and danger: a novel that makes your heart swell and your mind surge.
