Sean Terrence Best

The Secret of Hope Sean Terrence Best

Before her forlorn memory faded in the lamenting dirge of her sad funeral, she whispered the cryptic secret. Softly illuminated in candlelight, she ominously turned the mysterious pages of the ancient book and read to him a prophetic warning - beware the rise of a cult, an outcast religious sect on the grasslands of the US west - for when this day arrived, he would bear horrifying witness to the hideous grinning specter of the cold face of Death. Stowe Bridger has lost faith in humanity. His life is devoid of meaning. He has come to doubt the existence of his own soul. How can a fearsome personal encounter with the flaming six-winged Seraph of mortality in a lonely shack on the windswept plains of North Dakota affect a wayward despairing pilgrim so profoundly as to alter his warped sense of spiritual perception? A recurring nightmare, a miasma seeping from abandoned weathered walls, a proposition from a cyclops, a brush with death - the heart beats with a rhythm of revival when touched by the shapeshifter hand of Fate. The gateway to eternity is opened by the Secret of Hope....