Riders - Riders, Bk 1 Author:Veronica Rossi For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does. — Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He... more » has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen -- Conquest, Famine, and Death -- are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.
They fail.
Now -- bound, bloodied, and drugged -- Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he's fallen for -- not to mention all of humankind -- he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.