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The Illusion of Stability
Paperback
Series: Neither Did I, Book 6
Mystery & ThrillerChristian Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They brought down the machine that traded in human beings. They never dreamed the next fortress would be a holy one - and that the only way to breach it would run straight through the people it threw away.
Months after the network finally fell, the family the darkness accidentally assembled has something none of them have ever owned: an ordinary season. A safe apartment above a lake. A doorframe where a boy's height climbs in pencil. Peace - the strange, unfamiliar far shore of a war they somehow survived.
It doesn't last. Across an ocean, a house that believes it cannot fall goes on standing - older than the machine, richer than the machine, and - this is the terrible new thing - holy in the eyes of the whole watching world. A beloved, everlasting charity that governments trust and saints endorse, built on a hill it bought a lifetime ago and a foundation no one has ever been allowed to inspect. Its founder cannot be exposed, because he is a philanthropist. He cannot be attacked, because to question a living saint is nearly to blaspheme. By every measure the team has ever used, the house is untouchable.
But the oldest prophets warned that stability is the most dangerous lie the powerful ever believe - that a thing can be strong, and old, and admired, and rotten at the foundation the entire time, and that the strength is exactly what keeps anyone from looking. This house made one mistake, a generation ago, that it long since stopped counting: the one stone it threw away. She is alive. And
the discarded stone is the only thing in the world that can bring the whole house down.
You cannot attack a fortress like that. You can only uncover it. And the road to its foundation runs through the deepest wounds of the people the family loves most - which means their greatest danger is not the enemy at all. It is the slow, reasonable temptation to spend a soul to win, and to call it mission - to become, one degree at a time, the very machine they took up arms to stop.
Built on the prophet Micah and grounded in real clinical psychology, The Illusion of Stability is a
faith-forward psychological thriller about the fortresses we build to keep from being accountable - inside institutions, inside families, and inside a single guarded heart - and about the terrible mercy of a God who would rather uncover our foundations than let us stand comfortably on a lie.
Readers of Christian suspense will find:
- A fortress that cannot be attacked, only uncovered-and a saint no one is allowed to question
A profoundly personal reckoning: the psychology of authority, self-justification, and the dif- ference between remorse and repentance
A found family of the once-thrown-away, tested to the edge of becoming what they fight
Deep biblical resonance in the voice of the prophet Micah - the illusion that holiness places
anyone above accountability
Strongholds fall. Foundations get uncovered. And the ones the machine threw away are still here - with their names.
The sixth novel in the Neither Did I series, and the third built on the prophet Micah - perfect for readers of faith-driven thrillers who want suspense with spiritual depth, a formidable ensemble, and hope for redemption. Written by a licensed trauma therapist who treats what she writes.
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