Gloria Pearson-Vasey is a graduate of St. Michael´s Hospital School of Nursing, Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, and St. Peter´s Seminary, London. Born in Leamington, Ontario, in 1941, she has lived in Walkerton, Toronto, Waterloo, and Sarnia. She is a Secular Franciscan, holds a Master of Divinity Degree, and has worked in nursing, music, journalism, and parish ministry. Pearson-Vasey was a founding member of St. Francis Advocates, which serves autistic persons and their families in southwestern Ontario. With her son, Kevin, she co-authored The Road Trip: Life with Autism. Gloria Pearson-Vasey lives in the country near the Victorian town of Petrolia, Ontario, with her husband and their pets. She enjoys reading, travelling, nature, the tranquility of forests, and especially values time with her children and grandchildren.

The sequel to The Shushan Citadel. Twelve years after the Desolation, three subterranean communities in the former Michigan-Ontario region of the Great Lakes are thriving. At the Citadel, General Haz rigidly controls Shushan while plotting to conquer the entire region. Goaded on by his Governors, he pursues the script of the Book of Esther to its violent climax. With the ominous thirteenth day of Adar fast approaching, Lady Esther recites her lines midst terror and tears while Intelligence forces scramble to rewrite the outcome. North of Shushan, a quiet monastery and an Aboriginal settlement desire only to live in peace. Under constant threat from the Citadel and surrounded by the Lawless of the Wastelands, Abbey Trádún and DúndirkaNoka are neither naïve nor defenseless. Lurking in subterranean hangars, deadly Waterbugs and Airbullets wait expectantly for the right time to challenge the CitadelÕs fierce Dragonflies.

Claire, an elderly recluse held captive by the heartaches and secrets of her past, resides at Stone Gate with her middle-aged daughter. An unexpected visit from her grandson encourages the elderly woman to gradually reveal events of earlier years.

She recalls the unexplained death of her poet aunt, Riona, which leaves her autistic cousin, Jonathan, motherless and forever changes the dynamics at Stone Gate. After the arrival of the new governess, Claire finds herself inexplicably drawn to a presence in The Belvedere at Stone Gate.

Seventeen-year-old Emman Mallory fears that his twin brother, Noel, may be involved not only in drugs, but in home invasions and a teacher's death, all of which have jolted the tranquil town of Coltsfoot. Although there are only eight students in Emman's creative writing class, one of these is classically autistic and another has Asperger syndrome. Also present in the class is an undercover agent, one of three who enrolled at Coltsfoot District High at the beginning of the fall term. Surprising secrets are revealed through journaling projects assigned to the diverse eight who call themselves Enigma Club.

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Situated along the Great Lakes, three subterranean cities designed to resist terrorism: a monastery, an Aboriginal settlement, and Shushan, corporate headquarters of a communications network, survive a devastating planetary disaster. Shushan´s CEO arrogantly assumes the persona of the ancient Persian King Ahasuerus, erects a magnificent citadel, and plots to conquer the region. In defence, monastery and Aboriginal forces work with Shushan´s Jewish underground to enter the world of the increasingly delusional and dangerous ruler of the Shushan Citadel.