Infinity Jihad (2021)

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Infinity Jihad is the story of two ostensibly divergent characters whose worlds collide in Danbury Park, a small town in Southern California that prides itself on being one of the safest, most closely-knit communities in the United States. As a teenager who has struggled through some adversity in his life, Brandon Wallace has pulled himself up from the ashes: After nearly dropping out of high school during his junior year, he perseveres through his parents' impending divorce and strives to excel as a graduating senior who dreams of going to UCLA and becoming an electrical engineer like his father. On the first day of twelfth grade, he meets a peculiar and mystifying foreign exchange student from Saudi Arabia named Lyla Hanania, and he is infatuated with her almost immediately. As he gets to know Lyla over the course of the school year, their relationship blossoms from unfamiliar classmates to good friends to a girlfriend-boyfriend duo the likes of which surprises everyone on campus. 

But as the school year progresses, and after meeting Lyla's hypertensive and seemingly fanatical uncle Amir, Brandon slowly realizes that there is something not quite right about "the new girl in town" he has fallen in love with. Indeed, Lyla's dubious past—a past she refuses to share with Brandon or anyone else—is inextricably linked to a treacherous, incalculable plan that could engulf an unsuspecting community as well as an entire country in a diabolical, international-news-worthy disaster. Ultimately, as Brandon uncovers just who Lyla and Amir really are and what they are doing in America, he does whatever he can to stop Lyla from making the biggest mistake of her life, one that will involve his beloved Danbury Park High School of all places—on graduation night of all nights.

Mission (2020)

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Mission is the story of Shayden Boselli, a troubled sixteen-year-old living in the sleepy, rural town of Pepperell, Massachusetts in 1987. Shayden is a heavy-metal-loving adolescent who wants to escape the stuffy, upper-middle-class neighborhood and conformist culture that surrounds him. As a way to “get back” at the community that they feel has swept them under the carpet, Shayden leads his friends Austin and Jared on “missions” in the middle of the night to wreak havoc on the neighborhood. One night, they make the fateful decision to burn down Thorton High School, but the mission ends in disaster as Shayden faces off against a power-hungry Jared. After getting caught and interrogated, Shayden and Austin are sent to a military prep school as punishment. Jared escapes and is never found.

Thirty years later, Shayden—now a colonel in the United States Army—reflects back upon that fateful mission that forever changed his life. He returns home from a military conflict along the Korean border after being dubiously suspended from active duty, and he is contacted by none other than Jared, his old friend and nemesis from high school. Jared coerces him into joining a highly-specialized team of villains in a new “mission,” one that will be both international in scope and detrimental to the world. Because the mission is tied to organized crime, and because he desperately wants to thwart Jared, Shayden realizes that his only hope of staying alive and foiling the mission is to join Jared and his accomplices and tear them apart from the inside. Facing certain death or life in jail, Shayden does whatever he can to stop Jared and his cronies from succeeding—while trying to put the disastrous events of that night back in 1987 behind him for good.