The Grover Series: A Mystical Journey Through Trauma and Awakening
Angel Through the Storms
The storms of time ravage our reality, then leave us in our experience,
dislodging us just long enough for us to survey where we are inside and out
and in that time discern where our hearts would have us be.
Whether chaos or peace follows depends on whether we hold onto or let go of our constructs of the past.
Riveting, multilayered – Angel Through The Storms delves into the loveless realities of child abuse and molestation; it illustrates the mass abandonment experienced by refugees suffering and dying on the sweltering streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; it depicts the psychological and spiritual travesties that result; it offers up hope and healing through a love too rare for any ordinary human to share; in short, it births angels through the storms.
“Gotcha this time, lil’ girl! Ain’t no gettin’ away!”
Fisherman Sinker Parrish tears into his innocent daughter, Lola, finishing off the rape he toyed with for years.
Lola is a pure being, an intuitive, a symbol of innocence violated. Introverted, she suffers from PTSD and when threatened, psychological dissociation. Dissociation is her way of escape from the storms of her life. Diving deep into the internal regions of her soul, she is soothed by angels. When she flees the desolate marshlands of Louisiana to New Orleans, she learns that she is pregnant with her father’s child. Despite the horrific manner of its conception, the growing presence within her body makes her glow with uncommon radiance. Lola’s landlords, their priest, her obstetrician and a psychic named Truman are drawn to her mystical quality. Dr. Luc Fontainebleau delivers her angel in the flesh, Grover, a “keeper of the flame”, to the world.
When Lola falls in love with Luc, her father re-enters her psyche and her life. She goes missing, dramatically separated from her lover, and their budding romance drowns under tumultuous waves that culminate during Hurricane Katrina. Those who endure, with the aid of Grover’s mysterious influence, witness a greater truth about their “angel in the storm.”
The Bubble Rule
Somewhere in the Book of Psalms it says,
“But the meek shall inherit the earth;
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Somewhere in my mind, I hear myself asking,
Is that even possible?
Who are the meek anyway?
What power, if any, do they possess over the growing hordes of
Weapon-wielding maniacs proliferating on our planet today?
The Bubble Rule:
What happens when a soulless mob boss in India experiences the awakening of his conscience?
He must silence it.
What happens when it speaks to him in his own voice from the mouth of a boy he is convinced is real?
He vows to root him out and eliminate him from the planet.
What happens when that five-year-old boy is a fully enlightened spiritual master?
That boy, Grover, is not only a menace to him, but to the evil ways of humankind.
What happens when that mob boss is one of the wealthiest, most powerful business magnates in the world?
He, Duryodhana Talwar, will use every resource at his disposal to get rid of him.
What happens when Dr. Luc Fontainebleau, boyfriend to Grover’s mother, becomes ensnared in Talwar’s trap and must fight to save his own mind from being wrapped in this archenemy’s bubble?
How will his girlfriend Lola, a true angel through the storms, respond? How will her son Grover respond? How will Luc respond? And finally, how will Duryodhana respond when he ultimately meets his nemesis on the field of Kurukshtetra?
The Bubble Rule is a metaphysical thriller, an allegory of inner war, and a reminder that our greatest enemy is often the part of us that refuses to wake up. It follows the awakened Lola Parrish, her spirit child Grover and her boyfriend Dr. Luc Fontainebleau after they were transformed by their personal storms culminating with Hurricane Katrina. They end up in Mumbai to attend a wedding when a heart-driven karmic collision with Duryodhana Talwar, a powerful business tycoon and Indian mob boss, must play out on the field of Kurukshetra where the ego battles the soul.
Author’s note: The Kurukshetra War is an ancient war described in the Indian epic Mahābhārata as a conflict that arose from a dynastic succession struggle between two groups of cousins of an Indo-Aryan kingdom, the Kauravas and Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura.(Wikipedia) The term Kurukshetra allegorically refers to the inner battlefield within each of us whereupon the divine qualities (the Pandavas) of the soul battle with the baser qualities (the Kauravas) of the ego.