Kirjahaku

On April ninth, thousands of people wake from the same dream, visits from angels instructing them to build a biblical ark in their front yard, or the town square or little league field. Anywhere, to prepare for the worst natural disaster to strike the world since the days of Noah. A widowed California high school teacher risks everything to build a boat in the sixty days she is given. A homeless and self-proclaimed prophet of God preaches across Boston's waterfront, unaware that he is not alone in his visions. A young priest is torn between the signs around him and the skepticism of his Church. In the end, only thirty people may board each boat. As the world slowly comes to grips with events unfolding around them, they must weigh their own faith in the exceptional and identical visions of so many people. The skies are clear, without a hint of rain. But if the dreams are true, something terrible is looming on the horizon. "...a quality work of fiction, written by a professional who knows his stuff. A gripping story about the power of faith. Though it moves slowly and takes time building its tension - and build tension it does - this novel is the mark of an experienced craftsmen. The characters are varied and engaging, prompting genuine sympathy in the reader. His success is that he does what spiritual fiction often fails at: he focuses on the human element, how humans deal and grapple with the difficulty - and demands - of faith." - Kevin Lucia, Shroud Magazine Reviews "I couldn't put this book down. Margaret's Ark is a scary look at what might end the world someday. Dan Keohane, a finalist for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, has taken a different approach to the usual religious apocalypse stories. This is not the Rapture -- this is a natural disaster that will change the world forever." - Sheri White, Terrorflicks.com

From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Margaret's Ark and Solomon's Grave...People hide their secrets in the dark. Sometimes, that same darkness is what will eventually reveal them. Eight months after Saint Gerard's Episcopal Church closes its doors, the building has become the new home of Bill and Seyha Watts. The house, however, has plans for its new occupants. Trapped in a biblical darkness that can be felt, four people stumble through a surreal nightmare where the only escape is through their deepest fears and memories. Cut off from the outside world, they are prisoners of a power they cannot see, struggling to understand what is truth - and what is a lie.

Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel Nathan Dinneck's new role as pastor may be shorter than he expects. For thousands of years a secret has been hidden from the world and protected from those who covet its power. Popes and Kings have sought it. Theologians and historians have debated its very existence. In every generation since the days of Solomon, one person is chosen to keep its secret, protect it from an ageless group claiming the treasure for their own dark god. After millennia of searching, they are finally closing in on their prize. Evil has followed Nathan home to Hillcrest, Massachusetts. Nightmares of temples and blood sacrifice, visions of angels and cemeteries foreshadow a dark battle to come. In the balance hangs the lives and souls of those chosen to protect history's most holy relic, perhaps even the gateway to heaven itself.

In the late twenty-second century, Father Gendrick Hellerton begins his new role as priest of the Toojay settlement - an earthlike planet soon to be the next of many New Earths to come with the discovery of the Holes. Circling Toojay, a swarm of Locusts follows the sunset with an insatiable appetite for anything unwary enough to be outside after dark. Gendrick's predecessor, Mother Doneele, is going home, taking with her a dark secret and darker mind. Her final month on Toojay may prove more dangerous than anything from the skies. Peyton Kay is living her dream, having discovered not only the newest Hole leading to the newest Eden for humanity, but something far more wondrous: a derelict alien ship hovering on the other side. However, she and the crew of the Washington soon learn that this vessel is far from lifeless.

From the author of Margaret's Ark and Plague of Locusts What do twenty-somethings on a date, a body in a hole, people falling from the sky and a ninety-nine-year-old woman have to do with the book of Psalms?Everything. In these pages you will find a collection of stories which bring God's Word into a new light; with events and characters drawn prayerfully from each Psalm. A devotional, using fiction. There are no rules, only images and scenes inspired by Psalms 1 through 15; nor is any story restricted to one specific literary genre. All will entertain and illustrate how wide, and how relevant, God's Word can be to our own modern world, and beyond.