Bright Islands in a Dark Sea — L. Warren Douglas

WITCH HUNT

Yan Bando suffered from the family curse -- a mindless, deadly violence that overcame him in the face of danger. And so he chose the most peaceful life he could imagine: poring over the meager documents of an era two thous.and years past, when the alien ferosin had visited Earth and the militant Pharos church had come to power in the flooded continent once called North America.

But now his quiet pursuit of knowledge had landed Yan right in the middle of big trouble. For he had uncovered the greatest secret of the Pharos church, a secret the church militia would kill to protect: that Earth's alien visitors had never really left.

Luckily, Yan had also stumbled on another secret: that a legendary community of "witches" might really exist -- and if Yan could find them, their extraordinary memories might provide the means to vanquish Earth's mysterious masters at last...