Gray Empire – B James Wilson

Helena was torn between joy for Simon’s fulfillment and the deep foreboding in her heart. “But how can you know these powers will be yours, that this spirit will be true to your vow?” “I can feel the power already, Helena,” Simon assured her. “I feel a change inside, even now, in the way I sense your deepest being. I can sense and see the life within you, your radiant spirit.” Helena found his revelation deeply disturbing.

Her hand flew to her mouth, eyes growing wide. She worried he might have knowledge of her private thoughts, that he might discern she was carrying his child. She worried how he might react, considering her condition would surely change the whole dynamic of their relationship. Her concerns doubled when Simon took her hand and, reading the look in her eyes, said, “You worry for nothing, my love.

I would never use this power for anything but our good.” In an involuntary reaction, she pulled her hand from his and covered her stomach as if to shield her pregnancy from the malevolent force Simon had encountered. She tried to convince him to give it up. “How will you take the prophet’s skull to Caesarea, Simon?

It belongs to Herod. If you steal it from him, he will surely kill you.” Simon laughed. “Herod lives in terror of the prophet and of his Sacred Skull. I hold that power over him now. He will not dare defy me. Besides, he’s not here. He’s gone to his palace in Caesarea. I will address him about the skull there.” Helena could hear new confidence in Simon’s tone when he spoke of Herod, a strength she had not seen in him before.

It was a dramatic change that, in a strange way, she found attractive, though it served to trouble her further. ~ OceanofPDF.com ‘Til Seven Lives Are Given Chester, Nova Scotia, Present Day In Rick’s next awareness, Monica was standing in front of him calling his name. She had a look of concerned consternation on her face, and she said, “It’s like you went away for a minute.

What’s going on? You’ve had another of your visions, haven’t you.” Her tone carried a note of impatience. The monster was beginning to peek out over the edges of her normally studious calm. She repeated herself, ‘I said, you promised me breakfast.” Rick blinked and said, “Yeah, yeah, sorry.

I just had a thought, that’s all.

Digital Book – ISBN 978-0-9850791-9-2 Print Book – ISBN 979-8-9946593-0-4 Copyright © 2025 B. James Wilson All rights reserved, including reproduction in entirety or partially in any form without the written permission of the copyright owner. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Prologue – Herod’s Palace, Jerusalem, The Year 30 AD: Chapter One – The Calling Chapter Two – The Ninety-Foot Stone Chapter Three – Caribbean Bound Chapter Four – Getting To Know You Chapter Five – Miami Chapter Six – Assessing The Stone Chapter Seven – Confession Chapter Eight – Between Heaven and Earth Chapter Nine – Minoan Script Chapter Ten – Restoration Chapter Eleven – Abrojos – Something Lies Below Chapter Twelve – Western Shore Chapter Thirteen – An Unholy Book Chapter Fourteen – O’ Sacred Skull Chapter Fifteen – ‘Til Seven Lives Are Given Chapter Sixteen – An Approaching Storm Chapter Seventeen – Murder by Natural Causes Chapter Eighteen – Chumming The Waters Chapter Nineteen – The Cactus Cross Chapter Twenty – The Messenger Chapter Twenty-One – Blair’s Secret Chapter Twenty-Two – Rosslyn Chapel Chapter Twenty-Three – Castle Sinclair Chapter Twenty-Four – The Secret Room Chapter Twenty-Five – The Practician Chapter Twenty-Six – Best Laid Plans Chapter Twenty-Seven – Back Aboard Chapter Twenty-Eight – The Consult Chapter Twenty-Nine – The Enochian Dictionary Chapter Thirty – The Ravenscraig Map Epilogue OceanofPDF.com PROLOGUE Herod’s Palace, Jerusalem, The Year 30 AD: Though he was not numbered among the guests, Dagon was present on the night Salome danced.

Dagon goes where he pleases, entering like a cold draft through a gap in a door or through a crack in the wall, or a broken window. He requires no invitation, no place at the table, no greeting or salutation. He glides unseen through any celebration, settling like a shadow in a dark corner or watching from within the flames of a fire. He could as easily inhabit one of the invited guests or all of them at once, but this was Herod’s birthday, and it was Herod he’d come to seduce.

Unknown to his host, Dagon had prearranged the night’s entertainment. There was nothing more for him to do but relax and watch the evening unfold. Herod’s recent wife, Herodias, sat in her place at the center of the women’s table. She smiled alluringly at her husband, as he sat, centered at the men’s table twelve feet away.

The two long tables faced each other, enclosing a wide aisle between, where the entertainers would perform.

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