Future Works

Below is a description of future books series written by Bruce Hennigan. If you are an interested publisher and would like more information, please email Jeff Jernigan of Hidden Value Group by clicking here.

The Shadow Merchant Series

Dr. Jack Merchant is facing the one year anniversary of his wife’s accidental death in a hotel fire. He returns to the scene of her death and is immediately approached by a homicide detective convinced Merchant killed his own wife. Faced with mounting debt from his gambling addiction and loss of confidence in his medical abilities from his partners, Dr. Merchant’s life seems to be falling apart. He approaches the new medical examiner to authorize his wife’s exhumation and becomes an unofficial consultant as a forensic radiologist in order to clear his name. When he almost dies from an allergic reaction to contrast in his own hospital, he has a near death experience in which he observes a stranger injecting something into his intravenous line during the rescue attempt. When he wakes up from his ordeal, he discovers that this mysterious man is real and now lies on the medical examiner’s autopsy table from a professional assassination. What is going on? Who killed his wife if it was not an accident? Can he overcome his many problems and track down the person that hired the mysterious man to try and kill him during his allergic reaction?

The Shadow Merchant introduces Dr. Jack Merchant, a forensic radiologist struggling to regain his life and overcome his addictions. The Shadow Merchant Series consists of medical thrillers and elements of crime drama. As Dr. Merchant struggles to save his job as a radiologist, he battles his own personal demons and tries to rise above the depression and loss of the woman he loved. I have planned an initial three book series. This series is aimed at a secular audience and will feature the world of in-hospital radiology, in-hospital politics and medical “turf” battles as the background for the story. Dr. Merchant’s unique position as a forensic radiology consultant to the medical examiner’s office allows for the inclusion of the elements of crime drama.

The first three titles:

• Shadow Merchant
• Slice Fatigue
• All Bleeding Stops

The Node of God

In an isolated bubble in space, on the far side of the galaxy, an exiled remnant of humanity is ruled by demonic and angelic beings. Under the tyrannical rule of the Primus, a human who has lived for tens of thousands of years, those humans who follow the will of God look forward to the fulfillment of a prophecy promising them delivery from a world of rampant battles between the forces of good and evil. Into the midst of this conflict, a human being from the home planet of Earth mysteriously appears and begins the inevitable chain of events that promises to fulfill the prophecy. As the followers of the forces of goodness under the legion of the Lucen warriors struggles to protect this human from the forces of the demonic general Draksyn and his Shaden warriors, the real objective of the Primus is revealed. He wants to kidnap the human from Earth and learn how to open an interdimensional gateway to the home world of Earth for the purpose of conquest and death of all humans who serve the Creator of the universe.

The Node of God is a three book series featuring strong scientific elements. It is an allegory similar in scope and style to C. S. Lewis Perelandra series.

The Homecoming Tree

Ray Blunt is about to make the most lucrative decision of his career in a hostile takeover of a large business from its aging founder. To celebrate his upcoming victory, he has decided to fly to the Caribbean with his mistress leaving behind his wife and children to spend Thanksgiving alone. He is confronted by the elder founder of the company, Daniel Collinsworth who is more concerned about Ray’s infidelity rather than the business deal. The two are arguing in the park across from the office building housing the main company when they are both mugged. Ray awakens with no memory in 1941. He is taken in by a family running a boarding house on the sight of the park and he spends Thanksgiving in the company of strangers. He meets Daniel as a thirteen year old boy whose father is a hero training pilots to fly airplanes for the American Army Corps. Soon, Ray is pulled into the horror of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor when Daniel’s father goes missing while in Hawaii.

A local business, Lazarus Cheatwood, tries to take the house and the land away from Mrs. Collinsworth in order to get his hands on a capped oil well his father had discovered on the land before he sold it to the Collinsworths. Ray sees disturbing similarities in himself with the devious and deceptive Cheatwood and helps the family overcome his plan. As Christmas Eve approaches, Ray helps Daniel find his strength as a young boy coming of age in the horror that will become World War II. Daniel must cut down a tree his father planted on the day he was born and bring it back to the house by himself for the family’s Christmas tree. It represents Daniel becoming a man and the mantel of responsibility passing from father to son.

As Cheatwood presses on with his plan and tries to take away the house on Christmas Eve, a mysterious stranger appears and thwarts the man’s plans. Ray suddenly remembers who he is and awakens in a hospital room with the dying elderly Daniel Collinsworth. The old man has changed Ray’s life in a supernatural way. Ray discovers it is now Christmas Eve and he rushes home to spend it with his family.

This book, based on the successful play of the same name, is a strong family oriented inspirational story. It evokes nostalgic and tragic memories of a time when life was much simpler and evil was more unrestrained in the world. It is the story of one man’s journey into self discovery and one young boy’s ascension to manhood.

Future titles of books based on the plays by Bruce Hennigan:

• The Attic Tree
• Aunt Bobbie June’s Tea Room
• The Night Gift
• The Carpenter’s Son
• Uncle Albert’s Problem
• The Messiah of Main Street