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James Whiting is sure he’s done everything he’s supposed to do to get into heaven. So when he dies and finds himself in a black swimsuit on a sullen, gray beach, he is confused. His confusion mounts when another soul confirms that he is, in fact, in Hell. Determined he must be here to save his wayward daughter, he sets out in search of her, encountering volleyball, snorkeling, and even a concert, but with a twist of the damned.
As his pursuits to find his daughter wane, James starts to realize his fate may be personally rooted after all. The expanse of eternity stretches before him as a lonely strip between towering cliffs and an endless sea, and James recognizes the torment lies not in some external flame, but in the reflections of choices during his life that he made, or didn’t make, that expose him for who he really is. As hope begins to fade into the misty horizon, he comes upon a familiar face who assures him that there may be a chance for redemption after all. What it requires, however, will push James’ soul to its limits.
ON THE LEADEN SHORE
Previously Published Works
17-year-old Jack Turner is the son of a small town Wisconsin mayor, the captain of the football team, and is dating Mindy Flanders, the hottest girl in school. All of that is turned on its head when he saves Chuck Fredrickson from a flash flood. Fredrickson, reclusive and strange, is despised throughout town as the man who got away with committing a serious crime 20 years ago. But through subsequent interaction, Jack learns there is another side to him that nobody knows about, including what may have really happened. While Jack wades through disillusionment and embraces a new worldview, he also faces the social execution that comes along with it, not the least of which comes from his very own father.
Michael Christiansen is perfectly fine with his life in Eden, Idaho. But when a strange, old scholar by the name of Abe Augustine presents him with a job offer as a research assistant, he accepts. Soon, however, he finds the task is much larger than anything he’s ever experienced before. Abe reveals that the job is a mission to create paradise in society, and soon Mike finds himself faced with enchanted emblems, time travel, and undiscovered utopias.
The mission then leads them to fifth-century Britain—a world flowing with blood and tears, where ghosts of the past intermingle with monsters of the present. It is here that they are to achieve paradise, but things do not work out as planned. Mike’s journey forth from Eden throws out echoes of the great unexpected, but he discovers their sounds can be harmonious even in a land bent on discord.
The twenty-first century origin of Michael Christensen is nothing but a shadow to him. His world has become the fields of his fifth-century British community. In the five years that he has spent in the ancient world, he has married a Roman, gathered and built a community, cultivated the land around it, and defended its walls against the relentless Saxon invasions. Despite the outward harshness of life, he has found happiness. The return of an old acquaintance changes all of that. Virgil, a man Mike had thought had disappeared forever, returns and reawakens everything about which Mike has forgotten, primarily the pursuit that brought him back in time in the first place: the pursuit to redeem and perfect Western Civilization. Before Mike knows it, he is again caught up in the quest. Now, more than ever, Mike and his party come face to face with the demons bent on destroying his efforts, and he realizes that perhaps the most dangerous demons come from within.