Publisher's Synopsis
The Hourglass and the Darkness is a story that sets the distant past on a collision course with the present. Ancient rivalries are thrust into the modern landscape - irreversibly altering the lives of those thrown into the middle of the angelic war.The tale opens on a day set far, far into the past; the day the planet breaks and a global flood covers the earth. It was a world full of violence, ruled by fallen angels and their children from the incredible city of New Enoch. A city unlike any other before or after, upon her might rested absolute authority and power.Here, in the present, ancient divisions have grown ever deeper. It has been said many times, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Four thousand years after the fall of New Enoch, the world has long forgotten and is again full of violence and strife. Once again, history is ready for convergence.But in small town Alberta, all Jake wanted was his mother back and another drink. Words like "quantum entanglement" and "antediluvian" meant nothing to him. He moved back out west to get away from the chaos and pick up the pieces of a broken life. What he found would change him forever.After returning to his childhood home, Jake was still reeling from the recent loss of both his mother and his career. While trying to settle into the familiar surroundings of his youth, a disturbing discovery pulls him into the middle of an ancient war between the spiritual forces of good and evil.Unsettling nightmares and an obsessive curiosity send Jake deeper and deeper into the angelic conflict until his notion of reality begins to unravel and bend. Angels and devils, high technology and ancient hatreds create the backdrop for an epic story of hope and betrayal.
