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Seek and hide

Pages
529
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

Six years ago, the government took control of the church. Now only re-translated Bibles are legal, and an agency called the Constabulary enforces that rule along with other regulations. Believers who step out of line risk prison.

Marcus Brenner is a new Christian, and he will do whatever it takes to keep his church family out of jail. That includes gambling his own freedom by working to win the trust of a government agent.

Aubrey Weston gave up her faith in public when the Constabulary threatened her baby. She has since been released and wants only to support her son and stay off the authorities' radar. It does not hold. She is targeted a second time, and now her child is taken into custody. She wonders whether God would listen to her pleas if she had never denied Him.

The paths of Aubrey and Marcus cross, and each has to face the false beliefs they hold about themselves. For Marcus, a loner by nature, the pressure pushes him toward a role he never expected, as a leader. This is Christian fiction set under a regime that polices worship, with danger to a family and a congregation driving the plot.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
Trauma