Vivid images of a lady raged in my head. Once more she visited me. With lily-white hands folded in prayer, the black beads weaving through her fingers were as clear as ever. “I choose you.” Her words once again made no sense – this ghost that haunted me.
Ernest de l’Autin, Reach to the Wounded Healer

What would you do if you were visited by a mystical spirit that showed you visions of the future? What if these visions often included warnings of danger to loved ones? Would you consider this knowledge a gift or a curse? How would this impact your faith, especially if these things became real?

These are the question author Ernest de l’Autin explores in his debut novel, Reach to the Wounded Healer. He tells the story of Paul de la Moret, a troubled young man striving to overcome a childhood trauma and lead a normal life in spite of disjointed visions that include a lady and disturbing premonitions about friends and family. Eventually realizing the futility of his efforts, Paul’s life becomes a quest - a quest to answer the questions in his visions, a search to discover the identity of the lady, and a pilgrimage to quiet the turmoil in his own soul. In this, Paul is forced to answer the age old question, “Who is it that you say that I am?” The answer is provided through a prayerful relationship with the Jewish mother of the Man from Galilee.

In a tale that spans decades and continents and guided by the writings of St. John of the Cross’s The Dark Night of the Soul, Ernest de l’Autin weaves a spellbinding tale of friendship, life, mystery, discovery and spirituality. Reach to the Wounded Healer is a novel that delivers for those seeking a literary twist, as well as those on a spiritual quest of their own.