Between Silence and the Storm: Bloodline Covenant Book One
Some families pass down heirlooms. Others pass down secrets.
From the first chill of church pews in small-town Texas to the electric pulse of New York City, Between Silence and the Storm follows Timothy Ian Price-a sensitive boy raised on appearances, scripture, and silence-who grows up knowing what no one ever says out loud.
Timothy has a gift. A buzzing at the base of his skull. A visceral knowing. A warning system inherited through generations of women who learned long ago that intuition can be dangerous in the wrong hands. In Oakridge, faith is rigid, love is conditional, and secrets are protected at any cost.
As Timothy comes of age, so does the truth-about his family, his sexuality, and a legacy of corruption tied to the church that raised him. When the past resurfaces in the form of buried ledgers, threatened witnesses, and psychic visions too urgent to ignore, Timothy must decide whether to stay silent like those before him...or finally break the pattern.
Guided by unlikely mentors, ancestral wisdom, and the courage to live honestly, Timothy learns that his gift is not a curse-but a calling. One that demands boundaries, truth, and the willingness to stand alone if necessary.
Between Silence and the Storm is a lyrical, emotionally rich novel about:
Growing up queer in a faith-bound familyThe inheritance of intuition and generational traumaThe cost of silence-and the power of truthLearning when to protect yourself, and when to stand your groundBoth a coming-of-age story and a spiritual reckoning, this novels asks:
What if the very thing you were taught to suppress is the thing that can set you free?
Beau Wesley Carroll writes literary fiction rooted in the quiet collapse of what is false-belief systems inherited rather than chosen, identities shaped by fear, and structures that ask for silence in exchange for belonging. His work is less concerned with dismantling for its own sake than with what becomes possible when those structures finally fall.Through stories of faith, family, and intuition, Carroll explores deconstruction as a form of healing: the slow unlearning of fear, the release of borrowed certainty, and the return to an inner authority that was never absent-only obscured.
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