In rural eastern Missouri sits St. Basil's Seminary, an idyllic center of reflection and study and peace. But when the sudden, suspicious death of a visiting priest shakes the community to the core, Detective Cameron Ballack is called to investigate the matter. Facing hardship and tragedy of his own, and confined to a wheelchair, Ballack finds that the seemingly devoted members of St. Basil's have skeletons in their own closets. And when one murder follows another, Ballack must redouble his efforts to cut through the clouds of past sins before death strikes once more, this time with Ballack...

In the shadow of ruin comes a glimmer of hope. One day a traveler from the north enters the nation of Merivalka, a mysterious man known as Jo'l. His followers cling to him and his enemies seek to destroy him at all costs. Jo'l faces his adversaries all the way to a tragic end, but will grief or grace have the final word? final word?

1600–1890   The Protestant Reformation had redrawn the map of the Christian world. Now the Church sought to take the hope of the Christian Gospel where it had not been before.   The nearly three centuries covered in this volume give us a picture of the incredible energy and great expansion of the Church throughout the world, and the people who led the way through a variety of abilities that God gave them. Harry Hosier, William Wilberforce, Emilie Mallet, and Sojourner Truth took bold stands against wrongdoing and injustice. Cyril Lucaris, John Owen, John Bunyan, and David...