E. Q. Manson Livres

It was February when Sally died and went to Brooklyn. She used to be a middle aged Christian woman from Ohio. Now she's a uniformed in brown, reading Liveone's thoughts, jumping through keyholes, coping with afterlife bureaucracy and a five-thousand-year-old contest... certain a horrible mistake was made. Sally considers how she might use her new powers to help two teenagers. Sees how thoroughly she misunderstood all those Sunday school lessons about right and wrong. Broods about how unfair it is. But who ever said anything about fair? In this tragicomic fantasy novel we enter a world where rules are everything, technicalities abound, hindsight is better than 20/20, temptation is inescapable, and high school students become unwitting pawns in a cosmic game for control of the destiny of mankind. Other than that, it's just another love story.

Law and Sausage is four stories (Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Post-Modern), all intertwined around the idea of Hell. Spanning 2,320 years, it recounts pivotal pages in the Book of Life for men, women and families responsible for this idea, its formation and it's distortion... and how a hint as to the dubious nature of the idea's genesis was cleverly passed to future generations. Making use of much historical research, this imaginative novel tells how the Christian idea of eternal suffering arose from the musings of a Greek philosopher. How it gained leavening from events in Jerusalem before and during the War with Rome. How it took firm hold during political maneuverings in the early Middle Ages. Clues to the idea's origins were scattered, some deliberately; a puzzle waiting more than a millennium for a solver. Then a European archaeologist, and (generations later) a religious skeptic, stumble on evidence that all was not divinely inspired.