Fiction

Moses
The Cross & the Gun
by Michael Elgamal

An Orthodox Christian Redemption Thriller Inspired by Moses the Black

Moe ruled the city with gun and muscle. In a single night, he lost everything. Hunted and out of options, he hides in an Orthodox monastery, where an elder meets his violence with unyielding grace.

When the old life claws him back, Moe has to choose: revenge or redemption. The cross, or the gun.

A gritty Orthodox Christian novel of sin and redemption, inspired by the life of Saint Moses the Black.

This is not a sanitized saint story.Moses: The Cross and the Gun is a fast-paced, unflinching novel that follows a gang leader's journey toward repentance, and his struggle with the "old man". Violence meets grace in a Desert Fathers-inspired story rooted in the teachings of Saint Anthony the Great, Saint Macarius, Evagrius, John Cassian, and Saint Theophan the Recluse.

This novel is for you if you love:
  • The lives of the Saints and Desert Fathers
  • Honest, unsanitized stories of repentance
  • Character-driven fiction with real spiritual depth

What readers are saying:

"In imaginative, un-sanitized prose, Elgamal has captured the spirit of one of the greatest stories of repentance in the orthodox tradition… This novelization is a true gift."
— Sherry Shenoda, author of Mummy Eaters and The Lightkeeper

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Anthony Mancini had it all together. He cherished the life he had worked to create. Until the incident that destroyed it all. He embarked upon a journey that spanned decades and continents to restore the peace and happiness he had lost. And then echoes of his past caught up to him and turned everything upside down once more.

RAINEY DAYS
​by Maureen Spanos

Rainey Days is a portrait of a woman reaching deep within herself to find the strength to build a family. Lorraine Mancini has weathered the storm of her mother’s terminal illness and has begun to build a life of her own.
Her perfect career and her new home are threatened when ...

Seeds Along the Nile 
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Would you leave behind the gods of your fathers for a truth that could cost you everything?
Set in 302 A.D., Seeds Along the Nile follows Euphemia, a sheltered Christian girl born into the flourishing Church in Akhmim, Egypt. In a city steeped in pagan worship and under an Emperor determined on eradicating Christianity, she finds herself torn between the traditional path laid out by her parents and the unconventional but persistent calling God has placed upon her heart.
Anoub, the son of Akhmim’s pagan high priest, is destined to inherit his father’s sacred title when an unexpected encounter with the Gospel upends his life. Confronted with the truth of his newfound faith, he must decide whether this God is worth forsaking his family, his future, and the only life he has ever known. When Euphemia and Anoub’s paths collide, their blossoming feelings are tested by divided loyalties, deep-rooted prejudices, and the rising persecution around them.
A profound story of love, courage, and sacrifice, Seeds Along the Nile invites you into the beating heart of the early Church; a Church that bleeds yet remains victorious in Christ and a community of ordinary saints who treasured their heavenly crowns above earthly glory.

"NORMAN'S DESCENT"
by C.T. Lewis

When Norman Oswald takes the job at Castaway Cove, he knows it's going to be his last. 
As caretaker of an abandoned amusement park, he'll have time enough to finish his book and plenty of solitude to end his life. But as winter approaches, the park seems less and less lonely.
Amidst the haunted whispering of restless spirits, he hears the voice of his daughter inviting him to join her in the netherworld where a mysterious being is engaged in a sinister plot, and where the greatest horror is not the fear of death, but...