The rapture didn’t take everyone. It took the reason no one could name.

I’m glad to share my newest book, The Peace That Left: A Novel of the Tribulation. It’s a departure for me — my first full-length novel set in this world — and it imagines a world six months before, and three years after, an event that Christians across many traditions have called the rapture of the church. George Savade has spent two decades reading the news straight-faced in Los Angeles. Lights over the Pacific. A Navy that won’t explain them. A sitting congressman using a word no one in Washington says out loud. He sleeps fine. That’s the world this novel opens in, and the world it doesn’t leave alone.

Inhabiting the premise, not arguing it

This novel dramatizes a pre-tribulation, premillennial reading of biblical prophecy — one reading among several sincere ones. I haven’t written it to argue that reading; I’ve written it to inhabit it, the way a novelist inhabits any premise, fully, and for the length of a story. No dates are set. No living person is identified with any prophesied figure. The Antichrist and every governing body in these pages are invented.

The ache is never the enemy. It is treated, throughout, as something worth keeping.

What isn’t invented is the ache — bereavement, dread, the specific grief of the ones left behind. Grace had to be as vivid as the terror, or the book would be only horror with a Bible left on the table. If you’re carrying a grief that won’t close, I want to say plainly before the story starts: in these pages, that ache is never the enemy.

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