After making a blood bond with a magical flower, Sam suddenly finds himself with a vast amount of power and no way to control it. He is forced to unleash hell in an attempt to defend himself from the onslaught of the military as they try to subdue him. Sam realizes that the road to becoming a God is paved with blood and violence, as he learns to master his new abilities and contain Malice, the demon living inside him. No one is safe from this monster that takes over Sam’s body and lays waste to the city, and its citizens. The Gospel of Sam: Book One is the first novel in the 12 Blackened Petals series chronicling the rise of Sam Rittenhouse, as he seeks to replace the God that has forsaken us for over a thousand years.