The Hands of the Sun will be a novel combining elements of Gothic horror, satire, and historical fiction. The overarching narrative will focus on the efforts of a secretive religious society, the Sacred Akhenatenic Fraternity, to bring about the incarnation of a Horus-like figure, the Solar Prodigy. These efforts will intersect with the story of an Aboriginal family – two brothers, Samuel and Thomas, and their cousin Percy – who are key to the Fraternity’s plans. Major characters will be a French mystic, Jean Dessaix, who assumes leadership of the Fraternity, and an immortal Aboriginal sorcerer named Malcolm. The first part of the novel will be set in the 1930s in a fictional town called Safety Creek, where the Fraternity establish their base, and where they adopt the boys into their care. The second part, set in the 1990s, will deal with Hari, an Aboriginal woman who moves to Safety Creek as a series of brutal murders are occurring. The final part will be set in the near future and will focus on a young Aboriginal man, Joshua, who is drawn into the orbit of the Fraternity’s successor group, the Sun Children, as they attempt to complete the Fraternity’s work and usher in an apocalyptic new era.