Cinematic in its scenes, visceral in its plot, compelling in its characters, this globe-trotting, moveable feast of a novel is a page-turning, savvy, Gothic Romance of the heart. H. Nigel Thomas has crafted a story that odysseys behind the headlines of corruption, bloodshed, and inhumanity, both domestic and abroad, to probe the fantastic insurgency of love in all these circumstances and in all its forms—familial, erotic, transcendental, and wounding, but also healing. Fate’s Instruments will remind you of prose masters such as James Baldwin and Austin C. Clarke. Most urgently it will reacquaint you with—or introduce you to—another and equal master storyteller, namely, H. Nigel Thomas.