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Evin's Broken Believer
Paperback
Christian FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Subtle Longing House Publishing
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What would you do if everything you believed in was suddenly stripped away?
If the voice in the dark finally answers-and it isn't the one you were praying to-do you keep listening?
Trapped inside Iran's most feared prison, Evin, an American Christian has been torn from his work, and from a woman whose love he couldn't see because it didn't look the way he wanted it to, and thrust into a system designed to break more than the body. Here, identity is peeled back. Memory is turned against him. And faith is a word stretched so thin it teeters on the edge of breaking, until it becomes nothing more than a whisper.
At first, he clings to who he was-a fiancé, a believer, a man of conviction. But inside these walls, time unravels. Pain becomes a rhythm. Truth bends under the slow, grinding pressure to survive. And the faith that once anchored him begins to feel distant... fragile... almost foreign.
Told through raw, intimate diary entries, his descent is quiet, deliberate, and devastating. Voices emerge from the dark, and he begins to believe them. Interrogations don't just demand answers; they reshape them. Isolation doesn't merely weaken the mind; it rewires it. And the darkness pressing in from the outside begins to remake him into someone he isn't.
Then comes the truth he can no longer outrun:
The prison isn't his greatest enemy. It's something far deeper, far more personal. Because something inside him is changing...
and it may not want to be saved.
In the silence that follows, one question remains: if faith is reduced to nothing, what survives? And if grace reaches into that void, will there be anything left to receive it?
Evin's Broken Believer is a haunting psychological and spiritual unraveling of the self-a story where the real battle isn't for freedom, but for the soul that may not survive its own undoing. Insecurity and fear aren't just the chains holding you back; they are the worst parts of your own reflection staring back at you. The question is: are you brave enough to shatter that reflection, and let God take the wheel?
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