DSA Season Two is only weeks away from starting. I thought this would be a good time to bring everyone up to speed on the series and what to look forward to in the coming six books.
DSA Season One Recap
Ben Riley, a Buffalo cop, tracked a thief to a strange home on Wex Avenue. When he entered, he discovered a massive installation inside, one leagues beyond the level of technology currently available in the world. Unfortunately, upon departing, Ben was unable to see it again as he failed to know the code required.
This innocuous-enough event changed everything for Ben. Because of what he had seen, forces sought to discredit him and even framed him for murder. Ben was railroaded for a crime he didn’t commit, earning a lengthy sentence.
Susan Metcalf, Director of the DSA, saved Ben from this fate and recruited him into the clandestine Department of Special Assignments–a group tasked with tracking down scientific anomalies throughout the country.
Before Ben can get acclimated to this new life, he is assigned a case that takes him to Bellbrook, Ohio. The entire town was a dead zone, and all seven thousand residents were missing. Along the way, Ben meets the rest of the DSA field team: Ruth Heller, Lincoln MacKenzie, and Morgan Dunleavy.
A strange individual named Howard Clevinger clued them into the situation in Bellbrook. A signal virus had turned the people of Bellbrook into trees. Directed against the town as a test by the mysterious Witness, the team barely managed to survive the harrowing change and in the process lost Ruth Heller.
The road so far continued with Promethean…
…and carried the team through Broken Loyalties in a series of adventures both haunting and terrifying.
In their travels:
Ben and Morgan met Henry Reed, a pyrokinetic capable of setting himself on fire.
Lincoln MacKenzie turned against the DSA in a desperate search for answers from the Witness.
Zac Modine started an extra-marital affair with Morgan Dunleavy.
Ben learned the truth about Jacob Grissom’s “demise” while in the midst of a ghost hunt with an attorney-turned-spectral advocate, Cal Cooper.
Howard Clevinger was revealed to be merely one of a number of clones, the worst of which was dubbed Thirteen. He nearly killed both Ben and Morgan with his chemical manipulations.
In the midst of all this, Gregory Sullivan slowly took over the DSA from within, while hunting for a secret that has been guiding worldwide innovation for over a century. A secret known only as The Wellspring.
And so much more…
Broken Loyalties changed everything…
The season finale destroyed the DSA as a team and an institution. Grissom returned from the dead, a genetic abomination and murdered Stephanie Atwater in his attempt to slaughter Morgan.
Susan Metcalf was forced to fake her death and has set up an emergency bunker as the team’s new base of operations.
Lincoln infiltrated Sullivan’s DSA only to die at the Director’s hand.
Zac revealed his affair with Morgan to his wife and lost everything in the process. He sided with Sullivan over the field team, afraid to lose the only thing left to him: his job.
And Ben? Ben faced the maniac behind the Henry Reed case, Connor Hendricks, and took two bullets in the ensuing fight. Morgan found him just as he lost consciousness, ready for the end.
And. Here. We. Go.
The full reveal of the Wellspring takes center stage in the opening book of Season Two. Not only does it wrap up Sullivan’s coup of the DSA, it propels every character forward through the entire season.
So what do you have to look forward to with the DSA?
Zac, alone and on the run, with a terrible secret locked inside him.
Metcalf’s secret history revealed at the absolute worst possible moment.
The return of Thirteen.
The Bellbrook Batch.
The truth behind who the Witness is and where he comes from.
Time travel. A missing persons case. A viral threat beyond imagining.
And that’s just the start.
It all begins on September 13th with The Wellspring.
