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Cease and Desist, Thus Saith the Lord: A Divine Legal Satire
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When God walks into a failing civil-rights office with a defamation claim, Anika Rahman assumes she is dealing with a breakdown.
Then time stops.
The client is impossible. The evidence is worse. Sermon scripts, donor files, sealed abuse records, political campaigns, and quiet notes in the margins all point to the same accusation: powerful institutions have been using God's name to sell fear, protect predators, bless greed, and silence the wounded.
Anika does not know if she wants to believe in God again. She only knows what institutions do when they think holiness makes them untouchable.
What begins as an absurd lawsuit becomes a devastating trial over money, power, faith, language, and the difference between sincere belief and manufactured certainty. God is not suing believers. He is suing the people who turned His name into a weapon.
Sharp, strange, funny, and furious, Cease and Desist, Thus Saith the Lord is a supernatural legal satire about accountability, damaged faith, institutional rot, and the small, stubborn miracles that begin when someone finally says: answer the question.
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