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The Misdirection Trilogy

By R.A. Stapp

Ace Morrison has spent years eliminating supernatural threats for a five-million-euro contract that always paid, and always came with targets who were always deserving. Until the day he learns the truth: Codename X-47 is not a threat, it is a protector. The supernatural communities he’s been hunting are not predators — they’re prey. And the organization feeding him his targets is harvesting something far more valuable than blood.

What follows is a war fought in the dark, against an enemy that has spent decades — and in the end, millennia — hiding in plain sight. The deeper the coalition digs, the older and more patient the deception turns out to be, until the final betrayal doesn’t come from outside their walls at all. It comes from a man they trusted with everything.

The Misdirection Trilogy is a story about weaponized trust — what it costs to discover you’ve been aimed at the wrong target, and what it costs again when the person closest to you turns out to be the leak.

The Books
BOOK 01 False Prey Published

They told him he was hunting monsters. They lied.

A five-million-euro contract exposes a conspiracy that turns hunters into targets. Ace Morrison has spent years eliminating supernatural threats — vampires, werewolves, creatures that prey on humanity. The contracts come through secure channels. The targets are always deserving.

Until he discovers the truth. Codename X-47 is not a threat — it is a protector. The supernatural communities are not predators. They are prey. And the organization feeding Ace his targets is harvesting something far more valuable than blood.

What happens when the weapon learns it has been aimed at the innocent?

BOOK 02 Deeper Roots Published

The deeper you dig, the darker it gets.

When messages from the dead reveal fifty years of infiltration, trust becomes a luxury no one can afford. As alliances strain and truths surface, Ace learns the enemy has been planning for decades.

BOOK 03 Convergent Alliance Published

Trust is the last thing they should have given.

The Order’s true nature is exposed — not predator, but parasite, farming consciousness across the stars for millennia. Earth’s fragile alliance is the only thing standing in its way, and an enemy fleet is already inbound.

But the leak was never outside their walls. For months, JC has been the coalition’s most trusted fleet liaison — and its most damaging secret. By the time the family learns who he really is, the cost has already been paid in a life they can’t get back.

Some alliances are forged in trust. Some are broken by it. And some truths cost more than anyone is ready to pay.

What Readers Can Expect
  • A hunter forced to reckon with who he’s really been hunting for
  • A conspiracy that widens with every book — from a single false contract to a millennia-old parasite farming consciousness across the stars
  • Betrayal from inside the coalition’s own ranks, not just from the enemy at the gates
  • Interstellar stakes by the trilogy’s end, without losing the family at its core
  • The cost of trust, paid in full — a loss the coalition doesn’t get to walk back
Series Connections
Parallel To
The Consciousness Reborn Saga — same universe, same timeline, shared supernatural politics.
Chronological Position
Runs alongside the Consciousness Reborn Saga’s global-scale events, after the coalition’s Arctic-era foundation years.
New Readers
Best read after the Consciousness Reborn Saga — the coalition, the family bond, and the Order’s history are already established going in.

“Some alliances are forged in trust. Some are broken by it.”

Convergent Alliance

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