Alone, confused, without any recollection of his past, and roaming the plains of an alternative eighteenth century environment in which the supernatural thrives, The Wanderer begins to unearth the truth about God, the nature of the human soul, the horrors of his own past, and his connection with a dark apocalyptic future.‘The Awakening’ is book one of the 'Words to the Wise' saga, and ventures into a possible reality that greatly mirrors our own contemporary world, but which is also steeped in the Gothic motifs of myth and the supernatural.