An ancient threat. A sacred relic. A religious belief under siege.Silas Grey—ex-Army Ranger, professor of religious studies, and leading relics expert—is on the verge of rocking the religious and nonreligious alike with scientific proof of the Church’s central belief: Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Proof he believes has been hidden all along within the Shroud of Turin, the Christian relic purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus.But a series of susp...

Small-town life. Big-time faith.Previously published as The New Normal © 2020 by J. A. BoumaFor a while, I’d been kicking around the idea of creating a fictional smallish town in West Michigan, interested in telling the stories of people living life while exploring faith, taking a page out of Stephen King’s playbook with Castle Rock, Maine, and John Grisham’s Clanton, Mississippi.Then the Great Pandemic of 2020 hit!Thus was...

Small-town lawyer. Big-time threat. brutal personal stakes.Gideon O'Donnell is your typical Midwest lawyer with city-high hopes crashing into small-town reality.Bootstrapping his practice, with two associates wanting more? Check.Nearly broke, with his landlord squawking for back rent and Consumer Energy ready to shut off his lights? Double check!Picking through the courthouse trash defending drunk drivers, murderers, and other lowli...

No Wedding Ever Goes According to Plan. Especially when SEPIO Is Getting Hitched!The big day has finally arrived: Silas Grey and Celeste Bourne are going to be joined together in holy matrimony.But things don't exactly go according to plan. Both before and during their wedding.And when an enemy shows up unannounced and uninvited, things go from bad to worse in no time flat—threatening all they hold dear.Will Silas and Celeste find their happ...

The Book of Hebrews, chapter 13, reminds the Church to “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering” (NIV).Yet few have retold their stories in a way that can be appreciated by modern Christians and applied to their own life. J. A. brings two of these ancient Christians to life in two original novelettes painting the martyrdom of Perpetua and Polycarp of Smyrna in vivid, high-defi...

Stand Against the DarknessMonday morning, a Catholic priest is discovered dead inside a locked confessional both. The manner of death is clear. The rest…not so much.Who killed him, how did they accomplish the feat, and why did they commit such brazen, depraved sacrilege? There’s only one hope to answering the murky questions surrounding this inexplicable, criminal mystery.Group X.Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, two former FBI agents, ...

What do you do when the faith you’ve always known no longer makes sense?That’s the haunting, confusing, unexpected question confronting twentysomething Peter Daniel Young after a friend doubts whether Christianity makes sense of life and has anything to offer. More troublesome yet: the right Christian answers Peter was trained to give since childhood are for questions no one is even asking—including his friend, and even himself.Which leaves...

3 Bestselling Religious Conspiracy Archaeological Thrillers for 40% off Full PriceHOLY SHROUDAn ancient threat. A sacred relic. A religious belief under siege.Silas Grey is on the verge of proving the Church’s central belief: Jesus Christ’s resurrection. But an ancient cultic enemy has risen to destroy the Christian faith. Can he preserve the memory of its central belief before its archenemy erases it forever?...

The Church's Future Is HistoryThe year is AD 2124. Apostasy has bloomed throughout Ichthus, the remnant of future Christianity. Solterra Republic has launched a campaign of state-sponsored persecution against the Church. And a newly formed Resistance searches for a strategy of survival while one of their leaders is nowhere to be found.Giving the Ichthus remnant, an idea: exploit newly discovered time-travel technology to jump back to the time of Je...

They Fought the Good Fight. Will Their Memory Live On?For generations, Christians have venerated martyrs who fought the good fight and died for their faith.Now those relics are threatened by forces that would destroy their memory forever—thrusting the Order of Thaddeus heroes in the right place at the wrong time.Martyrs Bones is a collection of five original short stories from the master of religious fiction J. A. ...

5 Deep-Dive Short Stories from the Heroes of the Order of ThaddeusOver the years, thousands of fans have been thrilled and entertained by Silas Grey, Celeste Bourne, Naomi Torres, and Matt Gapinski—catapulting the Order of Thaddeus series to the bestseller lists on Amazon for religious fiction, often launching as number-one new releases, and garnering raving and enthusiastic reviews. Along the way, these fans have gained a dose of insight ...

Welcome to the Isle of Aleythia! A fantastic world of edenic bliss and high fantasy intrigue where all is not as it seems.This collection of five original short stories follows five characters from five different walks of life—letting the world of Aleythia unfold with every opinion and event, giving rise to the world and shape to its history.There is the Highborn princess Jayel born to royalty who longs for a different life—which is made too clear by those closest to her.