ARCTIC CONFLICT TRILOGY – SERIES DESCRIPTION

By R.A. Stapp

SERIES OVERVIEW

The Arctic Conflict Trilogy returns to the world of the Echoes of Ascension universe, where Ace Morrison and his family face their most personal threat yet—a weapon built from his own legacy.

Years after destroying the Order’s consciousness extraction program, Ace thought the nightmare was over. He was wrong.

Deep in the Arctic permafrost, Order remnants have rebuilt the program with one goal: to create the perfect weapon. Echo-13 is everything Subject 13 should have been—faster, stronger, and completely ruthless. Enhanced with cutting-edge nanite technology and designed without emotional attachments, he’s the superior model. And he has one mission: eliminate Ace Morrison.

When a three-hundred-year-old Yeti chieftain senses a disturbance that “feels like old Order protocols,” the Supernatural Tribunal mobilizes a strike team. But this mission is different. This time, Ace isn’t just fighting to save others—he’s fighting to stop what he once was.

The Arctic Conflict Trilogy explores family loyalty, the cost of creating weapons from human beings, and what happens when you face a ghost of your own making. Set against the frozen brutality of the Arctic, where ancient supernatural communities stand in the crossfire, and a hidden black ops laboratory churns out horrors, Ace must answer one question:

Can you destroy a monster built in your image without becoming one yourself?

BOOK 1: OPERATION SILENT WINTER

When Ajax White Water, chieftain of a hidden Yeti village, wakes from a nightmare about fire and screaming, he knows something terrible is coming. The earth itself is rejecting what’s happening two hundred miles south—something that feels like the old days, when humans thought they could own consciousness itself.

The Supernatural Tribunal sends Ace Morrison to investigate. But the intel is worse than anyone imagined: Order remnants have created Echo-13, a new generation of enhanced soldiers based on recovered Subject 13 protocols. No emotional attachments. No hesitation. No mercy.

And there’s a complication—Echo-13’s real name is Elias Moreau, cousin of vampire operative Dante Moreau. Believed dead for three years. Now weaponized and programmed to kill.

As Ace leads a strike team of werewolves, vampires, and enhanced humans into the frozen hell of the Arctic, three conflicts converge:

  • Dante, desperate to save his cousin
  • Ace, prepared to kill what he once was
  • Echo-13, proving he can’t be controlled by anyone

The facility must be destroyed. Echo-13 must be stopped. And the Yeti village stands directly in the path of whatever escapes.

Some weapons were never meant to exist. Some families are forged in fire. And some wars are fought for your very soul.

BOOK 2: Operation Icebound Echo

The Arctic facility held more than weapons—it held corruption that spreads like infection. When Ace Morrison’s foster daughters trigger an Old One’s attention, Echo-13 transforms himself into cosmic horror to save them, forcing the twins to flee into the frozen north.

But the corruption isn’t contained to one transformed soldier. Vienna has been spreading it for fifty years, disguised as human enhancement. Now, with supernatural communities fracturing and a dimensional overseer evaluating Earth for quarantine, Ace leads an impossible coalition: vampires, werewolves, trolls, and humans.

Their radical theory? Family mathematics—the idea that connection can reverse corruption.

If they fail, Earth faces dimensional isolation. If they succeed, they’ll transform their desperate Arctic refuge into something unprecedented: proof that love conquers cosmic horror.

The facility’s echo isn’t just a remnant of the past. It’s becoming the future.

BOOK 3: Operation White Out Protocol

“The Arctic does not forgive.”

OPERATION WHITEOUT PROTOCOL

The Family saved Earth from dimensional quarantine and proved redemption works across the multiverse. But success breeds attention—and not all of it friendly.

Ancient forces that seeded corruption across dimensions are noticing their failure. New threats emerge from realities where family mathematics failed, where entire civilizations fell to cosmic horror. And deep within the original Arctic facility, something is waking—something that remembers what Ace Morrison’s team discovered in Operation Silent Winter.

The weapon was never meant to wake up. The containment protocols are failing. And the technology that created Echo-13 holds secrets that could save billions… or doom them.

As Ace stands at the center of a reckoning decades in the making, one truth becomes unavoidable: some lines, once crossed, can never be erased.

The Arctic remembers everything. And this time, it answers.

With family mathematics spreading across dimensions and Echo nearing full humanity, The Family must confront the original source—the facility where it all began, and the truth that was never meant to surface.

WHAT READERS CAN EXPECT

  • High-stakes action in brutal Arctic conditions
  • Deep character development and family dynamics
  • Moral complexity—no easy answers about what makes us human
  • Supernatural politics and alliance tensions
  • Advanced technology meets ancient magic
  • The Morrison-Fieraru family at their most tested
  • Psychological warfare between Ace and his “improved” replacement
  • Themes of identity, free will, and the cost of creating weapons from people

SERIES CONNECTIONS

DIRECT SEQUEL TO: The Consciousness Reborn Saga

Continues Ace Morrison’s story decades later and explores consequences of the Subject Program.

PARALLEL TO: The Misdirection Series

Same universe, same timeline, shared supernatural politics and world-building.

NEW READERS CAN START HERE: The trilogy is written as an accessible entry point with background naturally woven in.

THEMES & TONE

  • Identity and what makes us human
  • The cost of loyalty when family becomes the enemy
  • Survival vs. honor
  • Legacy and consequences

TONE: Dark, intense, emotionally complex with moments of humor.

PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE

  • Military sci-fi with heart (Old Man’s War, Frontlines)
  • Enhanced soldier narratives (Winter Soldier, Altered Carbon)
  • Supernatural alliances (Dresden Files, Mercy Thompson)
  • Found-family dynamics under pressure

COMING SOON

Book 1: Operation Silent Winter – [Release Date TBD]
Book 2: [Title TBD]
Book 3: [Title TBD]

“They built me to be a weapon. I chose to be something else.
But what happens when they build the weapon I should have been?
And what if it doesn’t want to choose?” — Ace Morrison, Subject 13

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