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Neither Did I
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Series: Neither Did I, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
God sent him to warn the enemy. He went back to watch them burn.
Pastor Juan Santiago-Lee thought he had forgiven them.
He buried his old life in a hospital bed - the covert-intelligence career, the mission that shattered his body, the enemy who ordered a truck to a crossing and left him for dead. Nine years later, he preaches grace every Sunday and means it.
Then God asks him to go back.
The city that nearly killed him is about to be destroyed from within, and Juan carries the one thing that can save it: life-saving intelligence he is commanded to place in his enemies' hands. Deliver the warning, and hundreds live - including the man who tried to kill him. Bury it, and the problem takes care of itself.
But somewhere between the warning and the wanting, a voice Juan built to survive has learned to speak like justice. It quotes Scripture. It sounds like discernment. And it will let him save everyone except the one man God sent him to warn.
Inspired by the Book of Jonah and sweeping from the trafficking corridors of Saydoun to a Houston pulpit, Neither Did I is a psychological thriller about the war behind every wounded heart - the monster in the mind that feeds on anger, bitterness, and resentment, and the still, small voice that keeps saying turn. It asks the question Scripture leaves hanging: can we rejoice when mercy reaches the person we least want it to reach?
The answer is two words no reader will forget.
Readers will find:
- A flawed, unforgettable hero - a trauma-scarred pastor with a covert past he can't outrun
- A ticking-clock plot braiding espionage, repentance, and the seduction of revenge
- A cast you'll ache for: a trafficker's daughter, a survivor who refuses to become a hunter, an enemy who may be more than his crimes
- An unflinching, hope-filled look at trauma, forgiveness, and the difference between justice and vengeance
- A Reader's Guide and a seven-day surrender practice for personal reflection or group study
For readers of Ted Dekker's morally charged suspense and David McCloskey's Middle-Eastern espionage - faith-forward, propulsive, and unafraid of the hardest corners of the human heart.
From Dr. Donetta D. Quinones - Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of GraceRoot Institute - comes a thriller grounded in real clinical insight into trauma and the mind, and her second suspense novel following The Ashes of Brooklyn.
Some monsters aren't out there. They're the meaning we give our pain.
Meet the monster in the mind.
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