Novel on the Way

For twenty years, Sarah has lived a life of quiet discipline in a remote valley, her world shaped by her mother’s chilling warning: some stories are doors, and some doors, once opened, can never be closed. The lineage she carries is not a story for telling. It is a secret for keeping.

But the stories her mother feared are walking the roads, carried by zealous preachers who speak of a man who died and rose again. As their words take root, turning her quiet village into a place of fervent suspicion, a stonemason named Eliab begins to notice the woman on the hill in a way no one ever has, threatening the walls of invisibility Sarah has built around herself.

When an impossible pregnancy confirms the truth of her inheritance, Sarah is caught between two worlds: the simple, human love she has found with Eliab, and the devastating secret that, if revealed, would make her child the most hunted person in the world. Hunted by protectors who would guard her, believers who would worship her, and enemies who would see her silenced forever.

As the lines between love and loyalty, and protection and peril, begin to blur, Sarah must decide what she is willing to risk for a life she can call her own. For when the truth you carry is a story the world wants to tear apart, what do you keep, and what must you be willing to lose?