For the common person, the “old world” no longer exists. It was cancelled by the ferocity of the Dragon that wrought death and destruction upon the world. In the “new world” people live sealed off in their own homes, are fed, paid, and informed by the smoke oozing Screens of their televisions about the danger that lurks in the outside world, about the need to give sacrifices to the Dragon in the name of the common good.

There is someone who does not surrender to the evil that seeps into homes and pervades minds: George, the global magnate, who risks leaving his family estate, where he had been trapped after the sudden lockdowns. His journey in search of the truth will take him to his grandfather’s winery, where he will meet people, fight the Dragon, and take the first steps in his transformation.

In her first novella, CINF’s Vice-President Siobhan Nash-Marshall retells the fable of the ancient figures of St. George and the Dragon, but where George is the protagonist in a world of COVID, lockdowns, and the radical societal developments of the 21st century. The story unfolds as a search for the essence of reality.

ENDORSEMENTS

“A great little book that confronts the dark dragons that oppress us in these times.” — Antonia Arslan

“A fascinating contemporary St. George, who … fights against the devious dragon that  today threatens all of us.” — Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy

“Siobhan Nash-Marshall has written a … beautiful story about a man who discovers, as if by accident, what life is really about. But there never are just ‘accidents’ in life. There are moments when meaning and truth simply show up and overwhelm us. The result is true peace through the experience of love and the understanding that reality has a meaning that permits us to makes sense of our lives.” — Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Pastor, Church of the Holy Family, New York, NY

“Siobhan Nash-Marshall reminds me of C. S. Lewis. … Like Lewis, she uses old stories to teach timeless truths in a new way. With the eye of the true philosopher, she shows that the distance between what is and what I want can be wider than the abyss that separates heaven from hell. . . . This is storytelling at its most depth-delvingly profound.” — Joseph Pearce

“This little book captures what happens to people who live in unreality, they become sub-human and are more like animals. George is a seeker and one who remembers well. He is happiest when he is in the presence of beautiful music or the real love of a good family. These experiences are reality. He has to make choices.” — Mary Ellen Bork