For all who have felt homesick for a country they could not name — it is real, it is nearer than you think, and you are wanted there.

Elias Vance did not expect to wake up. What he found on the other side, he wrote down on the backs of invoices in the last weeks of a life that had already, once, come to an end — the Terrace of New Arrivals, the House Being Built, the Sea of Glass, the Throne itself.

What if the testimonies all describe the same place?

The Waiting Room of the Saints is Elias’s account, compiled by Timothy Holt and set inside the wider testimony of witnesses across centuries and continents — Rebecca Springer’s Intra Muros, the visions of Marvin Ford, Oden Hetrick, and the Indian sadhu Sundar Singh, the modern near-death experiences weighed against Scripture in John Burke’s Imagine Heaven. Where their accounts lean toward one another like iron filings toward a magnet, this novel walks the reader through, detail by detail — always held up against the plumb line of the Bible.

Everything the characters feel is invented, the ordinary stuff of fiction. But almost nothing they see is — the country Elias walks through is built, detail by detail, from the testimonies, and held up, always and on purpose, against Scripture.

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