Chosen: Where the Bloodline Begins

What Is Chosen About?

At its heart, Chosen is about people whose lives begin colliding with a hidden conflict far older and larger than they understand. Family, faith, ancient bloodlines, guardians, Heaven, humanity, and dark spiritual forces all become part of a struggle in which no one can remain untouched forever.

But this is not simply a story about supernatural power.

It is a story about what people inherit, what tries to control them, and what they choose to become.

The characters are not measured only by where they came from or by what power may be connected to them. They are measured by loyalty, sacrifice, truth, love, faith, responsibility, and the decisions they make when every choice carries a cost.

I want readers to experience the story before they are given every answer. The mysteries are meant to unfold in their proper time. The world may become vast, but the emotional center remains personal: families under pressure, people protecting those they love, hidden motives coming to light, and ordinary lives being changed by events no one was prepared to face.

To me, the deepest personal meaning of Chosen is redemption. I believe spiritual battles are real and are happening around us every day, even when we cannot see them. I also believe some of us are meant to do things far greater than we could ever imagine. The story asks what can happen when people who feel lost, broken, or unworthy discover that their lives may still have meaning—and that their worst chapter does not have to be their last.

Where the Idea Began

Every book has a beginning before the first published page. Somewhere, there is an image, a question, a dream, a person, a fear, a belief, or a moment that gives the story its first breath.

For Chosen, that beginning is part of my own story as a writer. I was in a very low and dark place in my life when I felt God reach down and enlighten me—or so I believed at the time. I was shown a vision of what my future could become, where I was in that moment, and who I was to Him and to His kingdom.

I did not immediately put pen to paper. For nearly fifteen years, the thoughts continued to roll through my mind. I questioned whether what I had experienced was real. At times, I wondered whether I was simply losing my mind. But the idea would not leave me.

Fifteen to twenty years after that first experience, I began to understand it differently. Maybe God had planted the beginning of a supernatural fantasy story in me—a story that could reach people like me, people trapped in a dark place and searching for the light beyond the tunnel or at the mouth of the cave.

When I finally decided that Chosen would become a book, the first character who came to mind was Lizzy. My daughter’s name is Rayne Elizabeth. Because of my incarceration, I had been separated from her for a long time. I used some of the pain and longing from that separation as fuel for the story. Through Lizzy and the world I was building, I found another way to draw closer to my daughter—if not physically, then mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

The idea continued to grow because it gave me room to explore questions I care about deeply: Are we defined by what we inherit? Can a person become more than the worst chapter of their life? What happens when power and responsibility arrive together? What does faith look like when belief is no longer comfortable or abstract, but tested by danger, loss, deception, and sacrifice?

Those questions helped turn one story into a much larger literary world.

A Glimpse Inside the World—Without Spoilers

The Atmosphere

The world of Chosen brings familiar places into contact with something ancient and supernatural. Sacred beauty and corrupted power can exist inside the same scene. Light, shadow, storms, silence, strange symbols, interrupted technology, and sudden changes in the air can transform an ordinary place into something threatening or holy.

The story is designed to feel cinematic, but the spectacle must always mean something. A supernatural event should change the situation, force a decision, reveal character, or carry a consequence.

One place I want readers to glimpse is the temple beneath East Mountain. I will not reveal what happens there or everything to which it is connected, but the temple carries the weight of something ancient—something buried, guarded, and never meant to be approached casually. It is the kind of place where spiritual history feels built into the stone, and where entering one chamber can change what a person believes about the world above it.

The People

The people in Chosen are not simple heroes and villains standing on opposite sides of a line. They carry love, fear, wounds, loyalty, secrets, faith, doubt, and conflicting responsibilities. Some know more than they admit. Some understand less than they believe. Some will be forced to decide who they truly are only after the cost becomes real.

Dazel is one of the first characters I want to place in the spotlight. She is also one of my favorite villain characters. She has fallen far, and she can be dangerous, but I do not see her as a flat picture of evil. What interests me is the conflict inside a character who has made terrible choices and still forces us to ask whether anyone is completely beyond grace, meaningful choice, or the possibility of becoming something different. Readers will have to discover where her road actually leads.

The Danger

The danger in Chosen is not limited to physical conflict. Deception matters. Temptation matters. Family divisions matter. The wrong truth revealed at the wrong time can be dangerous, while a hidden truth can shape lives without anyone realizing it.

The larger conflict reaches across Heaven, humanity, bloodlines, guardians, and the Fallen, but readers will discover that world through the people living inside it. Mystery comes before explanation. Character comes before mythology. Consequence comes before spectacle.

Why the Title Chosen Matters

The word chosen can sound like a promise, a privilege, or a declaration of importance. But being chosen can also mean responsibility, danger, sacrifice, and carrying something you never asked to receive.

The title raises a question that reaches through the story: Does being chosen tell us who someone is—or does the response to being chosen reveal who that person becomes?

To me, Chosen means that we are all called toward certain paths. Sometimes we walk away from those paths. We become distracted, wounded, angry, afraid, or convinced that we have already gone too far. Yet I believe God’s plan can continue leading us back toward the place we were chosen to be.

I also believe some people are chosen before they are born for a place in the kingdom and for work they cannot yet understand. As I have written and revised the book, the title has taken on an even deeper meaning. A person may be chosen for a responsibility long before recognizing it, prepared for a role long before understanding it, and carried toward a purpose long before knowing its name.

Faith, Darkness, and Human Choice

Faith is part of the foundation of The Bloodline Series, but I do not want the story to stop so it can lecture the reader. I want belief, truth, deception, sacrifice, grace, responsibility, and spiritual conflict to live through the characters’ actions and consequences.

The darkness in the story has a purpose. It creates pressure. Under that pressure, people reveal what they love, what they fear, what they are willing to protect, and what they might become if they surrender their choices to power, anger, grief, or deception.

I have always considered myself a Christian, but I did not grow up in a simple or spotless Christian home. My home called itself Christian while also being marked by immorality, rampant sin, and even the practice of witchcraft. I crossed lines and experimented with some of it myself.

Through all of that, I continued to hold on to my faith that Jesus Christ is who He says He is. I believe He is the King and the coming Lord of all. That faith absolutely influences Chosen, but so do my failures, doubts, wrong turns, and the things I have had to overcome.

I want Christian truth to remain part of the story’s foundation while leaving the door open to readers from different backgrounds. A reader does not have to begin where I began or believe everything I believe to understand darkness, longing, temptation, sacrifice, forgiveness, or the hope that a life can still be called toward something greater.

The Road Toward Release

Right now, my first responsibility is to finish Chosen and make it worthy of the world it opens. That means revising carefully, protecting the continuity of the series, strengthening the characters and dialogue, and making sure every important revelation is earned.

The vision extends beyond one book. I can imagine the series growing through future novels, audiobook narration, cinematic promotional work, visual storytelling, and carefully chosen adaptations. But none of those possibilities should rush or replace the foundation. The book comes first.

Writing Chosen has demanded years of persistence. I work a full forty-hour week, come home, and then work again—sometimes until ten, eleven, or twelve at night. Some nights that work is on the book. Other nights it is part of trying to build a company from the ground up. Either way, this dream has required labor after the day’s labor was already supposed to be finished.

The first manuscript was written in pencil on paper. Even then, I doubted it would ever reach the stage it has reached now. That is why finishing Chosen will be a great reward to me even if no one ever buys a single copy. I will have finished the book. I will have accomplished something I once did not believe I could accomplish.

To stand this close to completing Book One is astonishing. I am still a little dumbfounded by it. When it is finally finished, I hope I can pause, breathe, and appreciate what it took to get here before beginning the work of Book Two.

What I Hope Readers Carry With Them

I hope readers are pulled into the mystery, feel the danger, care about the families, and want to keep turning pages. I hope the supernatural world feels large enough to inspire wonder but personal enough to make every choice matter.

Most of all, I hope readers leave Chosen thinking about identity: the difference between what the world says a person is, what the past has made them believe, and what they still have the courage to choose.

I hope readers can relate to the people inside this story. If they are believers, I hope the book strengthens their sense that spiritual struggle, purpose, grace, and redemption matter. If they are not believers, they do not have to become believers before finding a place for themselves in these pages.

Not everyone has supernatural abilities, but everyone has gifts, strengths, and possibilities that belong to them. I hope readers come away asking what may already be inside them, what path they may have walked away from, and whether the light they have been searching for is closer than they thought.

More Is Coming

This is only the beginning.

In future blog entries, I plan to share spoiler-safe character introductions, pieces of the setting, the inspiration behind selected ideas, progress toward publication, and a closer look at the creative principles guiding The Bloodline Series.

I will protect the mysteries. I will respect the reader’s journey. And I will keep doing the work necessary to make Chosen the strongest beginning I can give this world.

The Bloodline Series: Chosen is coming.