In his THE WILL OF THE WRITINGS series, artist and biblical researcher, C.J.R. Watkins opens the world of spiritual cause and effect with SHECHEM’S LEGACY.

James, ex-Ranger and artist, rock climbed in the Appalachian Mountains for pure exhilaration and then married Katie in Clemson, South Carolina. His reputation grew when he produced a sculpture for the University and accepted a commission to produce a relief mural enhancing the architecture of a Bangkok bank. When finished, his wife and son, Jesse, joined him in Thailand for the dedication. It was rumored that James and his family travelled to negotiate the next commission but vanished—becoming another obscure incident buried in the mystical Orient.

But seventeen years later, Jesse receives a photograph and it becomes the key to his past. Now with his life in his backpack, equipped in the ancient holy writings and trained in the warrior ways of David, Jesse rappels 600 feet down a sheer stone face at sunrise departing the enclave of his foster family, founded by the Israeli warrior, Shechem, 2800 years ago in the Himalayan Mountains of Burma. To protect the enclave’s treasure trove of knowledge in the midst of its library and artifacts, Jesse is charged to secure a new site for their legacy and, if possible, find his natural family.

In the forest below, a caged woman sits amidst the squalor of an opium farm run by savage Snake Cult devotees and a witch, waiting to be led away to the auction block and sold yet again. Shards of her southern upbringing strengthen her as she clutches to belief for deliverance. By noon, Jesse and Katie are on the run until she reveals the existence of her younger children. All together, they flee, traversing hundreds of miles down the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, toward the safety of the U.S. Embassy in the city of Yangon. But poised for their destruction, a rogue of the snake cult waits inside Dragon’s Lair, a facade that conceals a satanic temple built over an ancient arena designed to perpetuate human sacrifice and ancient mystical rituals. Now Jesse faces the fight of his life and must withstand the fury of the darkest evil determined to exterminate them all. SHECHEM’S LEGACY, A TIME… TIMES… AND A TIME TO COME is a sweeping action adventure thriller that challenges commitment, courage, and love.