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The Shadow over Zion
Paperback
Series: Keepers of the Way, Book 9
Christian FictionHistorical Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jerusalem is still standing. But it is no longer the same city.
As unrest spreads through the holy city, the keepers of the Way face their most dangerous trial yet. What began as whispered suspicion has become something darker: marked doors, hidden watchers, fractured loyalties, and a rising hunger for a harsher kind of righteousness.
Mattai ben Azariah has spent years preserving what must survive in secret. Mara sees the danger first where it always strikes hardest-in households, widows, children, and those with no strength left to flee twice. Hadassah begins gathering the last fragile recollections of the earliest faithful before memory itself is lost. And Ezra must decide what kind of man he will become as younger voices in Jerusalem begin calling fury courage and patience betrayal.
At the center of it all stands James the Just, still holding moral weight in a city growing less willing to bear it.
But when the holy city begins turning against its own faithful, the keepers can no longer think only of protection.
They must think of survival.
Rich with tension, spiritual gravity, political unrest, and first-century historical atmosphere, The Shadow Over Zion is a gripping Christian historical novel about memory, loyalty, martyrdom, and the remnant that must endure when a city's soul begins to harden.
For readers who love:
- biblical historical fiction with depth and realism
- early church suspense and secret networks
- faith under persecution
- richly layered Christian thrillers
- epic series fiction with emotional and spiritual weight
The Shadow Over Zion is the powerful ninth book in Keepers of the Way, the sweeping historical fiction series by Gideon Mercer.
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