Inside My Soul

By Court Hanner

Deep... Powerful... and Authentic... Benjamin Lawrence is a mid-forties, narcissistic, arrogant, egotistical owner of a stock brokerage firm who suffers from a panic attack, after his wife, up and leaves him. A twenty year marriage has dissolved. A dark and nefarious shadow, representing all of his past shenanigans, mysteriously appears and carries him to a strange place. This is not really a place, it's his very own soul Meanwhile, his ex-wife, Raines Lawrence, struggles to move forward settling into her new town home complex, a big step down from the luxury she once had. She lands a job as an Account Specialist, and trust me, she is at the bottom of the corporate ladder Little by little, she learns the ropes of corporate America and all of its humorous debacles. And Leo, their teenage son, is riding out his last few weeks of high school. He is smitten with his first girlfriend, Becca. They pass each other letters in the halls professing their giddy love and exchanging different Cure songs holding on to every lyric. But Becca's ex-boyfriend, Henry, is overcome with jealousy and threatens Leo to break it off with Becca. Leo does not cower to his threats at first, but Henry shows up at a high school bon fire party throwing him down in the mud like a devious villain. And worse, the whole party has front row seats to this embarrassing scene. Leo is devastated Horrified Henry's threats continue and escalate to the point that Leo hides at school. He spirals and meets one of his new neighbors, Dreadscol, who introduces him to marijuana. At the pinnacle of his downfall, Dreadscol gives him a gun so that he can cease this battle with Henry. What does he do with the gun? Does Leo take the gun to school? Still inside his soul, Benjamin is presented with a black box. Upon opening the box, his adventure is propelled like a magic carpet ride to a crazy "goo" world and finally to a beautiful mountain glacier. Underneath all the layers of his adventure, deep within, he knows he is at a crossroads in life. With great depth he unravels. What exactly does he learn? Do his most cherished loved ones, Raines and Leo, forgive him for being such a poor father and husband all these years? Will Ben be able to find his way back home? Or is he trapped forever in an expansive field of snow.....The story's true purpose is revealed in the end just like the winds of a brutal blizzard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692127925
• ISBN13: 9780692127926
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Court Hanner
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"