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Encountering Darkness: The Great Pursuit (Book One)

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In this nightmarish tale, Pete and Amy try to discover who or what to follow. 

Pete and Amy hear many voices declaring "truth", which is the right one? The situation seems bleak, at best, especially for Pete.

Pete, a successful Mayor, must make sense of what is going on in this world and the world to come. He is haunted by an unknown smell from the darkened anthropomorphic house he lives at, as well as a strange world he keeps reappearing in.

Curious things keep happening as this man is caught in a double life of weakness and strength. On the one hand, he is loved and people understand him as a powerful, prosperous man. On the other hand, he is secretly weak and lost, especially when around his house.

Amy, who encounters Pete later, is a skilled warrior, from a different world. She has reliance on no one. Yet she too, is in confusion at what is happening, and her world crumbles from what she has previously known.

Can Pete and Amy figure out what is occurring before they follow the wrong voice?

This dark christian thriller is filled with suspense, action and a rush of adrenaline, humor and defiance...you'll be on the fringe.

And...

"Encountering Darkness," a christian fantasy and adventure novel, will take you on a thought provoking journey.

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Cover Design by Magpie Designs, Ltd, © 2017
Picture credits: Pixabay
Textures by Sascha Duensing

Editors: Johnathan and Sonya Martin

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®)

Copyright © 2001 by Crossway,
a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

All rights reserved.

ESV Text Edition: 2016All Rights Reserved

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