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Lighting the Shadows of Joshua Clay: A Story of Blood and Salvation
Paperback
Series: The Scrollbearer Saga, Book 2
ISBN13: 9781968023102
Publisher: J. Scott Publishing
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 700
Weight: 2.03
Height: 1.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world believes the story is finished.
Joshua Clay has fallen, the Bell has rung, and the land bears the scars of what was lost. The Withering has receded, and light has returned-unevenly, cautiously-to a world that wants to believe it has been healed.
But some wounds do not close simply because the danger has passed.
As pilgrims gather and memory hardens into devotion, a small band of travelers moves through places that appear restored but are not. Shrines rise where listening once lived. Faith begins to bend toward certainty. And the Word-alive, weighty, and unwilling to be worshiped-stirs in resistance.
Lighting the Shadows of Joshua Clay is an epic continuation of The Scrollbearer Saga, exploring what happens after salvation is claimed but before truth is fully understood. It is a story of false safety, costly obedience, and the quiet violence of turning grace into idolatry.
This is not a tale of conquest, but of discernment.
Not a battle for land, but for souls.
Not a question of whether light returns-
but whether it will be followed.
Blending dark epic fantasy with theological allegory and intimate character-driven prose, Lighting the Shadows of Joshua Clay asks a dangerous question:
What happens when people mistake the bearer of truth for the truth itself?
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