The Twins of Shiloh - Book 1

Lucil Quaye believes only what he can measure. Four nights in the harmattan, his radio records the same six minutes of interference, at the same minute each time. His twin Lucilla believes what she can hear — and something has been calling her by the name only her dead grandmother used. When the seventy-one-year-old woman who has prayed over them since before they were born arrives at midnight with a ledger and a warning (that was not sent to you), they are sent back to Shiloh, to the night a boy could not tell the voice of God from the voice of a priest, to stop a counterfeit before it teaches Samuel to doubt.

They will succeed. They will also learn that the enemy has never once lied to them — he only leaves out the second half. And that the person who prepared their mission has been taking dictation in her sleep for forty years, and calling it faith.

A time-travel thriller about discernment, in which the villain's only power is that he is never caught out. (For a shelf-talker: 664 pages. Twelve and up. The sign came true — that was never the test.)

Kept out of the files as asked. docs/05 §2 still carries the 100-word query version, which is longer and names the Deuteronomy mechanism — say the word and I'll swap one for the other, or cut this to a 40-word jacket strap.