Showdown is the first book within the Paradise novels. While Ted said you can read the books in any order, which you can, I found it much easier to grasp Saint, the second book after reading Showdown. This book is definitely my favorite of the three.
It takes place in a small town called Paradise, Colorado. There is a secret monastery just outside of the town where an experiment is taking place to raise children in isolation, teaching them nothing but good values through love and writing. Their core curriculum are the four rules of writing, which are featured above. Write to discover, there is no greater discovery than love, all love comes from the creator, and write what you will.
The monastery has a dungeon, which is the proverbial forbidden fruit. I hope I'm not giving too much away when I write that one student by the name of Billy, with the help of one, Marsuvees Black (the shadowy figure pictured above) guides him down below. Through his explorations of the tunnels below, Billy stumbles upon some empty journals, which he begins to pen a story that changes the town of Paradise forever unbeknownst to him. What Billy doesn't know, that when he writes in these special journals, the words become flesh, or, they actually happen.
Billy unleashes a terrible monster based off of the real Marsuvess Black on the town of Paradise where a young boy by the name of Johnny Drake must fight against all odds to save his town.
Showdown is a wonderful story of love, temptation, and the beginning of a great adventure; not only for the characters, but for the reader as well. Marsuvees Black has become my all-time favorite villain. Read the book and he will become yours, too.
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