The Wrath of the Ashes

Revisited and revised, 'The Wrath of the Ashes: Second Edition' delivers a story steeped deep in supernatural mystery and brazen with themes of anger, death, rebirth, revelation, and redemption-only from the visionary mind of author Alexander Will. This is the tale of Judy Berry, a forty-something-year-old African-American poet, world-renowned and known as "the New Goddess of Love" by her fans. Underneath her picture-perfect life consisting of a radio talk show host husband Martial, her two children Zola and Rodney, and a home in an upscale New Jersey suburb, Judy secretly suffers from recurring nightmares stemming from the abortion she had as a teenager; the nightmares evoke Judy's old self that is bursting with repressed anger and trauma from what she did back then, taking a toll on her marriage and career as a famous poet. Along with a frightening firebird, a maniacal and fierce figure known only as the Ashman suddenly begins to appear in her dreams; thinking the Ashman to only be a figment of her nightmares, he proves himself to be the leader of an actual anti-abortion extremist group who somehow has knowledge of Judy's old secret and has targeted Judy for his new campaign of devastation. The Ashman starts to threaten Judy's reality by bringing death upon the people around her, one by one. As the anti-abortion group invades and wreaks havoc in Judy's town and as the Ashman's heinous crimes increase, Judy is forced to face the truth about her dark past that she has been evading for decades, unravel the puzzling enigma of the firebird, and discover a way to stop the Ashman's unrelenting reign of terror before the poet and her family become his next victims. (From Ethereality Institute Publications at Ethereality.org)