Inside My Soul

Benjamin Lawrence III, a middle-aged, arrogant yet very successful owner of a stock brokerage firm, suffers a panic attack amidst his current separation from his wife and involuntarily embarks on a journey within his own soul. This journey is nothing short of a strange yet beautiful voyage into his very core, which seeks to answer life’s deepest questions. This leads to climactic realizations that unravel his inner most struggles. The story is also narrated through the eyes of his ex-wife, Raines Lawrence, and his seventeen-year-old son, Leo. Raines, a true artist at heart, has lived quietly in the shadows of Benjamin's success as a housewife and mother for over twenty years and finally breaks out on her own, leaving the marriage behind. She struggles to move forward in the real world after leaving Ben and all his inner demons. And Leo, an extremely brilliant and reserved teenage boy grapples with his last few weeks of high school, facing one of society’s biggest and unresolved problems-- gun violence in schools. Will this growing problem in our society ever be resolved? Benjamin finds the answer. This book reminds us that life is complex and we get lost in all these complexities. Happiness, hope, forgiveness, perspective, our purpose. It is in our darkest hour, we find the answers to these.