THE EIGHTH DAY
Yesterday they were five ordinary friends. Today they are all that stand between us and extinction…
Havenbrook, Iowa. Typical small town America, nestled in the rolling plains of the Midwest. Life is simple here. But for high school senior Jay Anderson, it’s about to get a whole lot more complicated. Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he is shocked to become an outcast throughout this small community, and becomes suspicious of the townspeople’s suddenly strange behavior. Only his friends believe in his innocence, and set out to prove it...
... only to find out there is something far more sinister going on here. Who are the mysterious men who have suddenly appeared around town? What is the government hiding at the town’s reservoir? Pursued by shadowy forces that would kill to keep the secrets they discover – and the secret Jay holds unknowingly within himself – he and his friends embark on an epic adventure. From the steps of Capitol Hill to the walls of the Kremlin; from the unfriendly skies over Eastern Europe to the treacherous waters of the Caribbean; danger lurks around every corner as these five teenagers seek to uncover what was created on...
THE EIGHTH DAY
Michael O'Neal wrote the first draft of THE EIGHTH DAY as a sophomore in high school, and it was the first prize winner of the 2000 Fountainhead Productions National Writing Contest. Since then he has graduated from the professional pilot program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and served a tour of duty in the NOAA Corps, America’s seventh and smallest uniformed service. When he’s not writing, he teaches nautical science, and enjoys playing the cello, soccer, volunteering with animals, and flies with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He lives in Virginia with his wife and a small zoo of mammals and reptiles.