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The First Lie
Paperback
Series: The Long Game, Book 1
Christian FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 4 2026
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Babel. Before the Flood. Before kingdoms, idols, and empires. There was one question that changed the world.
Did God really say?
In the beginning, the enemy's rebellion did not end with his fall from heaven. Cast down, enraged, and unable to create, Lucifer turned his hatred toward what God loved next: mankind.
Adam and Eve were formed for fellowship, placed in a garden of abundance, and given one boundary of trust. But when the serpent entered Eden with a question, innocence stood at the edge of a war it did not yet understand.
The first lie was not only about fruit.
It was about God's Word.
It was about trust.
It was about mankind's desire to become like God apart from God.
When Adam and Eve reach for what was forbidden, shame, fear, death, and exile enter the human story. Yet before they leave the garden, God speaks a promise that changes everything: the Seed of the woman will come, and the serpent's head will be crushed.
But the enemy heard that promise too.
From Eden's lost garden to Cain's bloody field, from Abel's faithful sacrifice to Seth's appointed line, The First Lie traces the opening moves of a spiritual war that will stretch across generations. As mankind multiplies east of Eden, the serpent begins playing the long game - corrupting worship, twisting desire, and searching for a way to stop the promised Redeemer before He comes.
The First Lie is a sweeping biblical historical fiction novel for readers who love Genesis, spiritual warfare, redemptive themes, and fiction that makes them want to open the Bible again.
The enemy plays the long game.
But God wrote the ending first.
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