General Gideon Sheridan (aka The Butcher) aspires to become a modern Tamerlane on the battlefield so that rebel cities surrender at the mere sight of his army, ending a future Second American Civil War.
The death of his wife and son in a rebel terrorist car bombing at the start of the war figuratively transformed a college professor into a revenant. Set during the siege and destruction of Pilgerruh (a city we know as Cleveland), a captive former rebel conscript (Boudica) saves The Butcher’s soul from the consequences of the horrific choices he made to force an end to the war and restore peace. Boudica and The Butcher is a Beauty and the Beast story hiding in an anti-war horror novel.
Why write something like that? It was a reaction to the high divorce and suicide rates of veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Boudica becomes the healer that the wives who abandoned their veteran husbands did not choose to become.
Jaycee Woods 
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