The Blue Lagoon Agency: The Hidden War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184875927)

A beach vacation. A hidden lagoon. A glamorous pageant. And a secret war for the freedom to remain human.

Renee Marlowe is a practical, warmhearted, fifty-ish woman who believes in lists, sunscreen, excellent coffee, real food, and keeping life beautifully organized. Her best friend Kitty Vale believes in purple lamé, emergency lip gloss, dramatic entrances, and turning fear into laughter.

They only wanted a beach getaway.

Then a mysterious jet-ski route leads them through a hidden passage in the cliffs to the Blue Lagoon Agency - a secret organization devoted to protecting the ordinary beautiful things modern systems are learning to manipulate: appetite, attention, beauty, friendship, pleasure, memory, and choice itself.

The enemy is not trying to destroy humanity.

It wants something quieter.

It wants people alive, entertained, comforted, flattered, nudged, measured, and managed - until freedom still looks like choice, but no longer feels like life.

When Renee and Kitty are pulled into the glittering world of the Radiance Crown Pageant, they discover that a luxury beauty event is actually being used as a behavioral laboratory. The sponsors are not just selling lipstick, mocktails, wellness snacks, and glamour. They are testing whether desire can be synchronized while still feeling personal.

With the help of a mysterious mentor in lime-green lamé, a calm but irritatingly handsome agent, three recent college graduates, and an AI servant named Lumen, Renee and Kitty must expose a hidden system before the pageant crowd becomes the next successful test.

Funny, glamorous, fast-moving, faith-friendly, and full of heart, The Hidden War begins The Blue Lagoon Agency trilogy: a joyful PG-13 adventure series about real food, real laughter, real beauty, real courage, real friendship, and the wonderfully unpredictable human soul.

The point is not the lipstick.

The point is the choosing.