by Sean Castle
God doesn't play dice. But Sean does. And he cheats. Sean is a thirty-three-year-old grifter with a slight cocaine habit, a fifty-thousand-dollar debt to the Gulf Cartel, and a "God Complex" that is rapidly becoming less of a delusion and more of a reality. He possesses a unique ability called The Shift. He can see the probability of any event—a poker hand, a ricochet, a stock market crash—and force the universe to pick the outcome he wants. But the House always wins. The cost of magic is Entropy. Every miracle requires a physical sacrifice: deafness, blindness, necrosis, and pain. To survive, Sean needs a battery. He needs someone to foot the bill. He finds it in Marcus Vane, a dying oil billionaire willing to pay any price for one more hour of life. Now, armed with a limitless bank account, Sean is doing the unthinkable: He isn't starting a criminal empire. He is starting a religion. From the ruins of an abandoned church in San Antonio, Sean begins his ascent. But as he gathers disciples and bends reality to his will, he discovers a terrifying truth: He isn't just rewriting the laws of physics. He is breaking them. And something on the other side has noticed.
