Canaan Sleeps: a suspenseful Christian YA Dystopia

A prosperous Christian utopia has dreams of a coming cataclysm.

Centuries after a global apocalypse restarted civilization, the perfect Christian city of Shiloh emerges as a beacon of power and prosperity to the onlooking world. But, as dreams about Jesus and fears of a coming disaster spread throughout the slums of the city, complacent believers are urged to action. When a letter pried from the hands of an enemy spy tells of Shiloh’s coming doom, who can be believed? Thomas, Ruth, and Adam must decide. The lives of thousands rest in their hands, and time is running out.

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Shiloh, the burgeoning Christian capital of the west, is celebrating a new dawn as Arch Prophet Kaynen Kafaana takes office. But not everyone is rejoicing in ‘God’s new mouthpiece‘. Over the excitement and rapid-development of this urban heaven-on-earth, a sinister shadow hangs.

Adam, Ruth, and Thomas have been close friends since early childhood. Despite their parents’ schemes to set them on a course for power and wealth, Adam, Ruth, and Thomas are united by a passion to know God and do his will. But that’s easier said than done in a city built on the backs of prophets who preach a different gospel.

Meanwhile, across the sea, in the belly of the hostile Eastern Empire, a lonely prophet, calling himself Theophilus, sits in a dank prison cell and writes. He madly scribbles a message from God to Shiloh. The ruthless warden thinks Theophilus is just another crazy fanatic from the west—that is, until he and his family start having dreams. The message must reach Adam, Ruth, Thomas and the other faithful remnants in Shiloh before the unspeakable happens. A catastrophe like the world has not seen in 800 years.