Accentuate E/M Hill Publishing

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“Shadows on Light: Rise of the Dark Shark” is a contemporary supernatural/spiritual thriller about the complexities of good and evil, clashing and colliding into each other in modern times, much like a lethal virus attacking a healthy cell. The novel tells the fictional account of two ex- specially trained military men, who together, competing in a challenge maneuver in Southern Jamaica in the early 1970s, are both struck and wounded by a lightning flash. They both survive their life-threating injuries and learn that they have been blessed with unique gifts to heal hurting and wounded people. The protagonist hero of the story is an ex-Navy Seal turned Catholic priest; the antagonist/villain is a middle eastern governmental lobbyist, who also happens to be a cultic leader for a historically factual doomsday cult, which has survived centuries into the modern era. The novel advances the power of the spiritual realm as a most vital perspective to meet, confront, and defeat the challenges of evil within these modern times, while touching on moral, racial, and ecumenical issues of timely concern.

Scott Jeffery, the book’s author, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1968, he received a full scholarship to play college football at the University of Utah. It was on a spring break in 1969, around Tuscan, Arizona, that he decided to act on a vocational pull – a “nudge from God” as he terms it – to enter the seminary to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. He was ordained to the priesthood as Reverend Scott J. Dugas in 1977 for the Diocese of Houma- Thibodaux. Presently, Scott Jeffery (his pen name), or “Rev. Scott”, as he is called by other ministerial colleagues, works – even though actively retired from the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux – as a pastoral-priestly administrator within the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, to assist the pressing needs of the Mississippi Missions. It is a “blessing” he has engaged since 2010.