Unholy Cult of the Blood Rose

By Eddie C Dollgener, Jr

After discovering through a dying friend that she has a nephew, Sarah sets out to find the child and bring him home to live with her. Tommy lives in an orphanage in Dallas, where he spends most of his time alone. Other children fear him because of his past. Only one child, a street-wise boy named Jeremiah, has befriended him. Jeremiah is the one who discovers that Tommy is being abused and reports this to the caregiver.
When Martin Stone sees that he has been caught, he breaks Tommy’s arm in an effort to cause a diversion and then jumps out of a window. After spending time in the ICU in the hospital, two new secrets have been discovered about Tommy. Tommy has the ability to heal others around him, and he has been branded by the symbol of a secret cult called the Circle of the Rose.
William Morgan is the main villain in this novel, leader of Circle of the Rose. His mind is so twisted that he thinks that he should rule the world. His followers have infiltrated nearly every level of government throughout the world. He has conducted genetic experiments in the past. He seeks out children with special abilities, such as ESP or foresight, and uses them for his own demented purposes. With Tommy’s abilities, he assumes that he can have immortality. Morgan also thrives on the torture of children and his most trusted and more secretive followers share his sick desires. Forming his own religion, he holds regular sacrifices deep within his lair, a cave somewhere in East Texas.
Morgan had entrusted Tommy’s procurement to Martin, who had become infatuated with the child and tried to keep him to himself. Martin was killed when he tried to take Tommy from the hospital, but Morgan has many other agents working to find Tommy and bring him back to the Circle of the Rose.
In the meantime, Sarah has found Tommy and taken him back home with her to live. She does not realize the danger that she is in until she begins to uncover some of Tommy’s past. When Morgan’s plan to rule the world is enacted, he vents his anger on the city of Dallas first for the failure in returning Tommy from there. Several people follow Tommy to Tyler; those who want to help him, and those who want to capture him and return to Morgan for a great reward.
Karen is the psychologist pretending to want to help Tommy, but she really has a plan of her own. When the opportunity arises, she kidnaps Tommy to return him to Morgan. Through the abilities of another gifted child, the people trying to help Tommy are able to follow him to Morgan’s lair. They band together in an effort to rescue him from Morgan.
In the final climax of this novel, Tommy will sacrifice himself, using his ability to heal and turn Morgan’s desires against him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eddie C Dollgener, Jr
• Release date: Sep 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310552618

Eddie C Dollgener, Jr

I currently live in East Texas. In July, 2014, I suffered a stroke that threatened to circumvent my desires for a meaningful life. Thanks to a wonderful rehab team out of Tyler, I was able to recover most of my functions for daily living, though I still get exhausted on some days. I am a Christian, a father to one daughter and a mentor to countless youth over the past 20 plus years in ministry. I have taught a Sunday school class and a weekly program to children about missionaries through a program called Royal Ambassadors. I am currently a youth director at my church, as well as a community healthcare advocate and a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused children) volunteer. Although my ultimate goal in life is to write full-time and be able to go on medical mission trips or disaster relief teams, the reality is that most writers have to work extra jobs to support their dreams. I advocate for keeping families together through life coaching and volunteer work. Only recently have I been able to take up the habit of writing again, so expect to see some more works in the near future. My interest in becoming a writer actually started around my twelfth birthday. My mother gave me a book, “Little Men,” by Louisa May Alcott, that became my first inclination that I would want to live adventures through written words. I began writing short stories and poems in high school and then started writing novels in the late 1980’s. My first efforts at creative writing were poems created between classes in high school. I actually had a decent collection of about fifty, but sadly, they were lost over time from various moves in my younger years. My first publication was a poem entitled “Throw Away Child,” that was published in a national anthology. About 1987 I first began to write full-length novels. At the time, I was a big Stephen King fan and thought that writing horror novels was the way to get into mainstream publishing. I started a novel that eventually split into two novels. “Circle of the Rose” began life as “A Rose for Tommy,” and now is titled “Unholy Cult of the Blood Rose.” The original story was about a boy who suffered from horrific abuse and travelled to a dream world in his sleep to escape his tormentors. After writing it out, which is what I try to do with anything I create, the plots just sounded too cheesy to work for me. I extracted the “real” life work from the “imaginary” one and found that I actually had two viable novels from one. “Unholy Cult of the Blood Rose” is a horror novel that I wrote to address the issue of child abuse. In a way, it was a therapeutic work of art helping me to deal with the demons in my past childhood. I do not wish to delve any further at the moment, but if you take the time to read the introduction to that novel, you may have a better understanding of what message I was trying, and may still be trying, to convey. The second novel that split from the original became “Unbinder.” That work of literature is still in progress. It will actually become three separate books as a series and is a fantasy set in another world with young lovers, old dragons, battling sorcerers and an evil overlord. My latest foray into modern literature is a drama written out as serialized fiction. “Kevin’s Homecoming” represents the latest genre that I am working in and has become the most rewarding for me, both in its creation, and in the publishing aspect. May God bless you richly in the coming days, Eddie C Dollgener Jr