The Flame Beyond Time

The Flame Beyond Time is not a book you simply read. It is a place you step into - a poetic, mythic scripture of speculative memory that invites you to wander, linger, and listen. Here, science fiction brushes against theology, mysticism meets quantum wonder, and every page is threaded with the hush of something sacred.
I didn't write this to be a straight-line story. I wrote it for moments - moments when you pause, breathe, and feel the words reach for you. Like a psalter or a prayer, it can be opened anywhere. Every canticle, fragment, and vision stands alone, yet together they form a living tapestry.
You will meet Aelira, Fr. Iosif, and the Child as you might meet constellations on a night walk - not in neat introductions, but in glimpses that slowly become familiar. Some passages are only a breath; others invite you to stay awhile.
This work came from many places in me - creative writing, dreams, and stories gathered over decades as a lawyer listening to people at their most vulnerable. But most of all, it came from my daughter, Katerina. She has never spoken, yet she has taught me that silence is not empty. It is full. It arrives before words and stays after they are gone.
If you open this book and, somewhere in its pages, find a piece of your own longing, a spark of mercy, or the sense that you are not alone - then it will have done its work. Everything beyond that is grace.

Author Profile - Bill Boundroukas
Bill Boundroukas is an attorney, writer, and lifelong seeker of meaning who blends the worlds of law, faith, and storytelling. For decades, his work in the courtroom has been grounded in clarity and truth, but his heart has also been drawn to the unseen - to the moments of stillness, memory, and love that shape a life.
The Flame Beyond Time grew out of visions, dreams, and lived experience, inspired most profoundly by his daughter Katerina, who has never spoken a word yet has been a voice of sacred silence in his life. Through her presence, he discovered that silence is not emptiness but fullness - a presence that can transform those who encounter it.
Bill writes not for fame or profit, but to help others see the world differently - to open a window where beauty and hope can be glimpsed in unexpected places. His work moves quietly, like a whisper passed hand to hand, carrying the flame he was given into other lives.
When not writing, Bill continues his legal practice in Illinois, serves his community, and cherishes the gift of family, faith, and the Ferris wheel ride of life.