This White Ashes 'Special Edition' version has an appendix of five informative articles by the author, discussing various thoughts interwoven within the work. - - - - - Young Rachael Farrington's life is suddenly besieged by assassination plots, abductions, and police corruption, as dangerous secrets emerge from her boyfriend's past.The story tells of Rachael sitting on a riverbank when young Jason Beauvale wanders into her life. The two become inseparable, but Rachael's mother is suspicious of the boy; he's wealthy and, for reasons of her own, she has no trust for him and his kind.As the couple become closer, Jason shares a secret: Many years earlier he witnessed his father escape, badly injured, under a hail of bullets. He doesn't know why it happened, or if his father survived, or why his mother then chose a life in hiding, refusing to speak much of him or their past lives again. These are mysteries that haunt the boy and which he aches to resolve.In an ironic twist, the couple are confronted by the very forces that lurked in Jason's past.In the turmoil that follows, loved ones soon face abduction, imprisonment and death, as an unscrupulous organization, known as The Syndicate, seeks to fulfill a long-outstanding resolution to which Jason unwittingly becomes the key.The fight for justice falls to Rachael, but with high-ranking police corruption working to defeat her, how can she alone bring The Syndicate down?