paul-Novel

The town of Lockwood is destroyed in a single night by a force no mortal can comprehend. Buildings burn, bodies vanish, and above it all, something watches. Fourteen-year-old Darrel Roanshaw survives, but survival proves to be a curse rather than a mercy. In the years that follow, the world reveals an uncomfortable truth. Gods exist, and they do not care. To them, mortal lives are brief, expendable, and insignificant, collateral in conflicts far beyond human understanding. Kingdoms rise under divine influence, cities fall to unseen hands, and worship becomes less about faith and more about fear. Darrel’s grief festers into hatred. When those closest to him are taken and his last ties to humanity are severed, he is left with a single conviction: no being should possess the power to decide who deserves to exist. As divinity tightens its grip on the world, Darrel begins to pursue something forbidden, an answer not granted by gods, but taken from them. This is a story about the worth of mortal life, the arrogance of divinity, and the unholy resolve of a boy who refuses to kneel.