Theodicy Full Summary (Spoiler Alert)

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Synopsis of Theodicy

Prologue: Jennifer’s Choice Begins

A female ghost, Jennifer, sits in a bathroom when two interrogators arrive to ask her identity. She tells them she doesn’t know or want to know. They reply that she must force herself to recall the tragic events leading to her death if she hopes to free herself from this afterlife prison. She receives a red book, and recognizes her name in the inscription: “To Jennifer: I’m sorry I failed you. Don’t blame yourself. Please come to us. Love always, Nicole.” Jennifer’s begins reading the book as her interrogators leave.

1: Carl’s Choice Begins

Carl, one of the two main antagonists in the story, gets evicted from Anthony’s apartment and rescues an attractive woman from an oncoming train at a subway station.

After much confusion, the woman introduces herself as Helen Miller, the wife of Congressman Jonathan Miller. Helen seduces Carl back to her hotel room, and Carl accepts her invitation to a Caribbean cruise, where she behaves like a different person, rejecting sex as sinful and picking mean-spirited religious quarrels with strangers.

Helen claims her husband wants to kill her to avoid a divorce, and mentions the man’s home alarm code and the hidden gun in his closet. To prevent Carl from leaving her, Helen promises to take her psychiatric medications and agrees not to discuss religion again.

Weeks later, Helen mentions religion again, and Carl taunts her by inviting demons to control his life. After she goes missing, Helen calls Carl, claiming the politician hired someone to attack her. Carl confronts the man at gunpoint to discover he’s actually Helen’s father. Read the complete summary and view video segments here. Thank you.

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Please consider reviewing and commenting on this summary of a novel draft. I seek any constructive criticism you might offer here. As a Christian, my intent was to explore theodicy (or responses to the problem of evil) in a work of supernatural fiction. Thank you.