Lockdown: Book One of The Garrison
Vijaya Schartz
Triskelion Publishing
ISBN: 1-933471-24-7
Fiction, Science Fiction, Romance
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

The last place in the universe Rhonda Alendresis had imagined herself was at the Zurin Five high security prison. Rhonda sees herself as an artist turned doctor not some sort of by the book guard that thinks all prisoners deserved to be treated like garbage. Rhonda knows differently. She realizes that sometimes prisoners are simply misguided or in the wrong place at the wrong time. Plus Rhonda can’t see how a little colour with her drab grey uniform could possibly hurt anyone as her supervisor keeps telling her. In Rhonda’s mind, rules are meant to be bent.

Lockdown is an action filled sequence from start to finish. Moreover, the characters evolve and learn about themselves from their interactions with each other and their traumatic experiences as the unimaginable happens at the high security prison. This book reminds us that we sometimes cling stubbornly to what we believe to be true regardless of the consequences. Often we don’t even realize who we are and what we want from love and life until fate steps in.