Without Him

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>Faith may guide you but only love brings you home.</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Brighton and Baéz are half-brothers forever linked by a miraculous moment on the frozen surface of Lake Aspetuck. In the heart of a deadly snowstorm one brother plunges into darkness and the other risks everything to pull him back to the light. That perilous episode echoes across their lives as they take vastly different paths through the chaos and complexity of the 21st century.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Brighton Bethune becomes a global figure: a professional tennis champion an Army Ranger haunted by war and a celebrated film actor grappling with the cost of fame. Baéz Honor grounded by the spiritual teachings of their prophetic grandmother Nonnie follows a quieter but no less meaningful path exploring the mysterious gift of healing he discovered on that fateful day under the ice.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As the brothers navigate ambition trauma love and legacy they find themselves confronting the moral decay of the modern world including sports corruption spiritual exploitation media frenzy and the silencing of truth. Yet through every storm their enduring affection for each other remains a lifeline and their exuberant embrace of this imperfect world guides their fate.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Without Him</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is a sweeping and intimate novel about brotherhood identity healing and the sacred ties that bind us across time distance and belief. Told over three decades it is a story of two men shaped by one impossible moment and the lives they build in its aftermath.</span></p>