The Giant's Shadow

Christian supernatural thriller centered on ancient spirits, oppression, and deliverance. Nathaniel Cross fought his own war first, a voice that swung between chosen and finished. Now he watches the same patient pride grind down his sister's marriage, until a locked closet and a threat in the dark prove it was never just mild.

Nathaniel Cross fought his own war first. Years of a voice that told him he was chosen, then told him he was finished, until an old man who'd fought the same war taught him to stand and fight it in a name that wasn't his own. He thought that war was behind him.

Then he started noticing his sister at Sunday dinner. A salt shaker moved two inches out of reach. A dessert eaten before she gets two bites. Nothing a courtroom would call anything, and Cross recognizes it anyway, having spent years learning to see exactly this kind of patient, mild, unanswerable control before it shows its hand.

It shows its hand. A locked closet. A hand on her arm hard enough to bruise. A threat spoken through a door in the dark. By the time Cross understands what he's really fighting, the pattern already goes back three generations, the same creed handed grandfather to father to son: the world takes from you first if you don't take from it first yourself.

What Cross finds underneath that creed is older than any of them know. Older than the family. Older, maybe, than the Flood.

Perfect for readers of Gina Holmes's Wings of Glass, Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness, Brian Godawa's Chronicles of the Nephilim, and C.C. Warren's The Unfallen.