The Wound Becomes the Weapon

Tristan Ware can heal with a touch. He doesn't know why - and he doesn't know that healing is only the first of the things waking up inside him. Orphaned as an infant and known for years only as Number Forty-Seven, Tristan has built a small, careful life as a city land-broker. Then a gravely ill friend, gifted with visions, tells him the truth she has seen: he is an archangel, asleep inside a human life, and he is running out of time to remember it. As his gifts unfold - and as he falls for Nina, a woman who is not what she appears - Tristan is drawn toward Caelum Voss, the serene architect of a global "Restoration" movement remaking the world in its own image. Caelum has arranged everything. He has managed the powerful and comforted the wounded. The one thing he cannot manage is an archangel who wakes up. To stop him, Tristan will have to remember who he was before the forgetting - and discover that the deepest wound of his life was never a wound at all. It was preparation. Spanning memory, grief, first love, and the cost of becoming what you were made to be, The Wound Becomes the Weapon is a visionary novel for readers of William Paul Young's The Shack, Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness, and the soul-searching fiction of Mitch Albom. Some gifts are gentle. Some cost everything. And some wounds were never wounds at all.