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“One of the passengers waiting for a bus . . . said the area . . . was empty. She looked away for a few seconds. When she looked back, he wassitting there in his wheelchair.” Justin Moore returns in this final book of the trilogy as the Director of the East Side Rescue Mission, a shelter for homeless people in San Diego. The broken human beings he experiences every day in the shelter eventually convince him the planet Earth is under siege from some powerful apocalyptic force.

My Christmas Attic is the story of a young boy who is struggling with the challenges of dyslexia during the Korean War era, at a time when dyslexia was little understood. Jake Jennings, the young narrator of the story, builds a fantasy world in his attic to escape from the many challenges in his life, including the apparent loss of his father who is “missing in action” in the Korean War.

Justin Moore, a young Catholic priest, witnesses a crime he believes he might have prevented if he had intervened to assist the victim. The incident destroys his faith in himself and undermines his mental health. He takes a leave of absence and moves into a rundown studio apartment on the edge of downtown San Diego, where he lives a reclusive lifestyle without a computer, telephone, or anything that connects him to the outside world. He spends most of his time in the loneliness of that apartment reading and pondering his life’s mission.