I want to alert you to my latest book, a novel called The End of the Beginning. I’ve worked on it over three or four years, and it’s the most carefully crafted book I have written. I think it’s important.

The back cover blurb puts it this way: This is a novel of American evangelical Christianity at the end of the 20th century. It begins with faith-filled idealism and ends fractured by forces it has never dreamed of. The believers are humbled by what they discover in the world around them and in themselves.

In other words, it’s a commentary on our times.

Mainly, though, it’s a story.

It begins with a group of kids, eighteen or nineteen years old, working the summer at a Christian camp in the mountains above Santa Cruz. Something magical happened. They became deepest friends. They fell in love. Drawn together by their faith, they felt their lives being transformed and lifted up. It was the best summer they had ever dreamed of: Sam and Howard, Julie and Mindy and—most of all—Verity.

Verity was plain and woebegone, intimidated by her smooth and confident peers. Yet somehow she became deeply loved, their spiritual center.

Then summer ended and real life began. The End of the Beginning tells of the disappointments, the unexpected difficulties and the stunning betrayals that followed that magical season.

You can order The End of the Beginning on Amazon as a paperback or a Kindle book. I hope you will buy at least two and tell all your friends to do the same. Click here and go straight to the site.