The Department of Eternal Miscalculations

By Michael M. Khazabi Ph.D.

What becomes of free will when Heaven and Hell begin to manage human lives as rival experiments?

Mira Bell is sent from Heaven to live a life shaped by comfort, opportunity, and protection. Eli Mercer arrives from Hell under the opposite terms. His life is designed around hardship, disappointment, and pain. Their earthly journeys are meant to confirm a celestial theory: that privilege produces virtue, while suffering reveals moral failure.

Then they meet, fall in love, and begin to ruin the plan.

As Heaven and Hell intervene through illness, distance, ambition, loss, and carefully arranged coincidence, Mira and Eli continue to choose one another. Each attempt to separate them only exposes a deeper contradiction. If divine power directs the course of human life, what remains of free will? If hardship can create generosity and compassion, while comfort can conceal moral weakness, can destiny truly decide who belongs in Heaven or Hell?

Witty, humane, and sharply satirical, The Department of Eternal Miscalculations explores love, moral transformation, divine bureaucracy, and the uneasy boundary between fate and choice. At its heart lies a provocative question: are people defined by the lives assigned to them, or by the decisions they make when those lives become difficult?

The novel suggests that goodness is neither inherited nor guaranteed. It can emerge from suffering, deepen through human connection, and become powerful enough to unsettle even the institutions of eternity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9S2H4JD
• ISBN13: 9798188206833
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"