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The Lamb of Sandalwood is a novel that follows Sam Hale on a hero’s journey. |
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Sam Hale was born on the cusp of a spiritual war between good and evil, the event horizon where visions race through time and space. Mortals who can receive visions of the war – closet telepaths like Sam – threaten the balance. Sam’s early childhood traumas taught him to mask his intuition, anxieties, and unwanted prescience. Now, it’s 1998. Sam is thirty-two, dangerously overweight, exhausted from masking, and wishes he had some joy. Yet he must still travel from Chicago to work as a senior information technology consultant. Dixon Hale, Sam’s long-lost paraplegic brother who blames Sam for the poolside accident at Sam’s wedding that paralyzed Dixon, is a wealthy black marketeer. Dixon has developed a cell regeneration pill to help him walk again using the abundant nickel and sandalwood in New Caledonia combined with fetuses supplied by his secret network of human traffickers. The O, a genus of parasite species that feed on dark matter, thrives worldwide by stealing unforgiven souls from an existence where all souls await judgment at the end of their mortal life. It traps them in the roots of Sandalwood trees and offers them a choice: Haunt living souls into becoming unforgiven souls or become dark matter. The story begins when Sam discovers the lifeless body of a young intern from New Caledonia. Then, his boss sends him to consult at a bank in New Caledonia. Once there, he receives a vision of sandalwood roots draining life from the young intern and discovers Dixon has manipulated his soon-to-be ex-wife Amy into bringing her unwanted fetus to New Caledonia so he can walk again. Amidst the visions and eerie coincidences, Sam meets Simon, a wise and compassionate spiritual master who is blind. Sam first struggles with Simon’s guidance but accepts it when Simon shows Sam that he has a purpose buried by early childhood trauma. When Sam starts receiving visions of the O, he realizes his highest purpose is to free souls, including his unborn child, but feels overmatched by the quest. For Sam to succeed, Simon guides Sam to discover himself, master his gift of visions, and commit to his highest purpose. He must do all this while the O sends Dixon and others to stop him. |
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