Where the wounded become whole and the forgotten remember who they are.
Before the Fear Had a Name
A poetic, cinematic novel set in 1992 New York City, where identity, love, trauma, and destiny collide. Through heartbreak and awakening, Eli Shepherd must confront the truth about who he is, who he loves, and why he was spared.
Before the Fear Had a Name blends LGBTQ+ literary fiction with spiritual rebirth, emotional depth, and a haunting sense of destiny. It is my most profound work: raw, beautiful, and unforgettable.
About the Author
Samuel Rice is a visionary storyteller whose life has been shaped by truth, loss, resilience, and awakening. From rural Kentucky to the heart of New York City, his experiences have carved a narrative voice that is raw, cinematic, and spiritually charged. His writing blends emotional depth with metaphysical insight, inviting readers to see themselves through the lens of destiny, identity, and transformation.
The Great Message
The Tone of Home
The Tone of Home is the vibration beneath all things, the memory of unity calling us back to ourselves. It is the message at the heart of my work: that separation was never real, and the path back is not found in reaching outward, but in remembering inward. The Message is an invitation to return to Source, awaken your true nature, and hear the sound your soul has always known.
The Message Begins Here
Volume One: The Return to Source
This is the opening transmission: the beginning of the remembrance.
Volume One calls you back to the place before fear, before separation,
before the world taught you to forget who you are.
It is the first note of the Tone of Home.
Remembrance
Returning to what you never lost
The first pillar awakens the memory beneath the noise, the knowing that the separation was never real. Remembrance restores coherence, clarity, and connection to Source.
Alignment
Walking in harmony with reality
The second pillar brings your thoughts, energy, and actions into unity. Alignment turns awareness into power, intention into direction, and clarity into momentum.
Transmission
Tone of Home
The third pillar is the expression of the Message, the vibration that wakens, heals, elevates, and restores. Through transmission, the Message becomes alive in others.
The separation was never real.
You are returning to the place you never left.
Begin the Journey
Step into The Great Message
This is where the remembrance begins.
Enter Volume One and experience the first transmission of The Great Message,
the return, the awakening, the coming home.
Return to What Matters
You are not here by accident.
If these words have stirred something in you, follow it.
There is more waiting to be discovered.