Faith may guide you, but only love brings you home. Brighton and Baéz are half-brothers forever linked by a miraculous moment on the frozen surface of Lake Aspetuck. In the heart of a deadly snowstorm, one brother plunges into darkness, and the other risks everything to pull him back to the light. That perilous episode echoes across their lives as they take vastly different paths through the chaos and complexity of the 21st century. Brighton Bethune becomes a global figure: a professional tennis champion, an Army Ranger haunted by war, and a celebrated film actor grappling with the cost of fame. Baéz Honor, grounded by the spiritual teachings of their prophetic grandmother Nonnie, follows a quieter but no less meaningful path, exploring the mysterious gift of healing he discovered on that fateful day under the ice. As the brothers navigate ambition, trauma, love, and legacy, they find themselves confronting the moral decay of the modern world, including sports corruption, spiritual exploitation, media frenzy, and the silencing of truth. Yet through every storm, their enduring affection for each other remains a lifeline, and their exuberant embrace of this imperfect world guides their fate. Without Him is a sweeping and intimate novel about brotherhood, identity, healing, and the sacred ties that bind us across time, distance, and belief. Told over three decades, it is a story of two men shaped by one impossible moment and the lives they build in its aftermath. "Brighton and Baez's story is compelling and complex—a story of paths intertwined. Brothers traveling in different directions but grounded firmly in universal truths of love and family - both blood and found. The writing is lyrical. From the initial dramatic recounting of an improbable rescue from under the ice, the paths the brothers follow are engaging. Set against the backdrop of international tennis competition and the evolution of their spiritual connections - to each other and the worlds around them. Then, moving to the Middle East with remarkable accuracy in terms of events, language, and customs, the book explores the realities of what it means for young men to go to war and for their families. Brighton's story in the recent Middle East gives the book the added currency of reality. I felt as if I knew them both. The stories of the brothers and those in their lives who know and love them, set against the backdrops of international athletic competition and war, gives the story the currency of reality. Well worth the read." —Diana S; Corporate Advisor, Connecticut ""Without Him" probes the depths of love, sacrifice, loss, and discovery...about ourselves and our connection to a higher being. Law's second novel is a wonderful, introspective journey that took me to unexpected places and has stayed with me long after the final page." —Jamison R; Educator/ Musician, Illinois "The characters are engaging to the point of devotion, the book is daring and full of risks which the author wisely ignores and lets us deal with for ourselves, and the underlying movement through time, politics and the world is wrenching, given where it has delivered us, the readers. Of which we are, by the end, painfully aware. And of course we experience this through the astonishing Brighton, a huge risk, so unlikely in his beauty and heroic capabilities, yet the author delivers him as a compromised witness, the carrier of a corrupted, broken idealism, a full caring human, and finally, metaphorically, a sort of broken savior. I loved the writing; every single character is wonderfully drawn, and much is funny. Sami and Raven. Life goes on. Really good; great characters, great structure, great intention." —Kathryn W; Artist, photographer, novelist, New Mexico "Lindsay Law has an imagination like wildfire. And like wildfire, his gift is far-ranging, swift, and dazzling in its detail. He creates characters with genuine depth, and puts them in impossible circumstances from which he never abandons them, sometimes seeming as astonished as we are at the results. And so, he becomes that rarest of writers, a trusted companion for a long journey. Like other devoted readers, I can number them on the fingers of one hand." —JACK O; Tony-winning Director; Connecticut Brighton Bethune saves his half-brother Baez' life at the beginning of Without Him , and as a reader I climbed right in. Lindsay Law's second novel shows once again his ability to create characters you care about deeply, who move through space and time in a world you never want to leave. There is such compassion in Law's portrayal of Brighton, Baez and their families, such generosity and power in his storytelling. I was smitten by Without Him , and to know why I say that, you'll have to read the book. Invite Without Him in. You will never forget it. — Peter P; Playwright, TV producer; New York City Lindsay Law has produced scores of television plays and dozens of films, in addition to a pair of productions on