Since his stand-off with Coalition Properties, Luthecker has suffered from severe, incapacitating migraines. When western medicine doesn’t help, Alex and Nicole travel halfway across the globe to seek out the one man alleged to have the same predictive abilities as Alex—a monk by the name of Kunchin who resides in a cave in Tibet. But when Alex finds the elusive Kunchin, the Monk tells “The one you love the most will die, and this time, there will be nothing you can do to stop it.” Will Alex lose Nicole to the mercenaries who are still hunting him? RISE is the sequel to the critically acclaimed novel LUTHECKER.