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

The Peace That Left imagines a world six months before, and three years after, the sudden removal of believers from the earth. 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.

Timothy Holt writes this premise the way a novelist inhabits any premise — fully, and for the length of a story — without setting dates or naming any real person or power. The Antichrist figure and every governing body in these pages are invented. What isn’t invented is the ache: bereavement, dread, the specific grief of the ones left behind, and the grace that the author insists must be as vivid as the terror, or the book is only horror with a Bible left on the table.

Format: Instant PDF download, 286 pages.