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Off Course : A Novel of the Unseen Truth
SOME ROADS LEAD AWAY FROM TRUTH.
In 1989, newlyweds Jacob and Rebecca Hale drive into the Appalachian Mountains looking for adventure, quiet, and a new beginning. What they find instead is a light that doesn't belong to this world.
What begins as awe becomes obsession. What begins as curiosity becomes a decades-long search for answers hidden in silence — pulsing through the forests, calling from beyond.
Jacob will spend more than fifty years looking up. He does not yet know what the looking will cost him, or that the light has already found the hunger he is building — and means to use it like a door.
But not every light comes from heaven. Some truths are too dangerous to chase.
Off Course is a story of deception and longing, of the unseen war for the human soul, and the choice between illusion and the truth that never stopped reaching for us.
"The danger is not the darkness… the danger is wanting the light." — The Stranger
An Unseen Truth Novel.
In 1989, newlyweds Jacob and Rebecca Hale drive into the Appalachian Mountains looking for adventure, quiet, and a new beginning. What they find instead is a light that doesn't belong to this world.
What begins as awe becomes obsession. What begins as curiosity becomes a decades-long search for answers hidden in silence — pulsing through the forests, calling from beyond.
Jacob will spend more than fifty years looking up. He does not yet know what the looking will cost him, or that the light has already found the hunger he is building — and means to use it like a door.
But not every light comes from heaven. Some truths are too dangerous to chase.
Off Course is a story of deception and longing, of the unseen war for the human soul, and the choice between illusion and the truth that never stopped reaching for us.
"The danger is not the darkness… the danger is wanting the light." — The Stranger
An Unseen Truth Novel.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2026
About the author
William Pickrel
36 books1 followerWilliam Pickrel writes the Unseen Truth series — clean Christian supernatural suspense where the spiritual world is as real and present as the one we can see.
His favorite books have always been spiritual thrillers with strong, driving storylines — and he writes the way he reads. After the death of his father, a retired pastor, in October of 2025, Bill put his thirty-plus years of storytelling to work, carrying on his father's message of hope. He writes from a simple conviction: that a story can reach a heart in places a sermon can't. His novels move fast and keep you turning pages, but underneath every one is a question about faith, doubt, and what lasts. He writes for the reader who wants to be gripped — and maybe, quietly, changed.
William also writes the Smidge series for children. He lives and writes in the mountains
of Western Maryland.
He does not only write supernatural suspense. Enough to Cover Us is a family story that runs from 1943 to 2011, held together by a quilt sewn from a soldier's uniform and his wife's wedding dress. It is quieter than the Unseen Truth books, and it is about the things families never get around to saying out loud.
Browse the complete Unseen Truth series at unseentruthbooks.com. To learn more about the heart behind the books, visit unseentruth.org.
His favorite books have always been spiritual thrillers with strong, driving storylines — and he writes the way he reads. After the death of his father, a retired pastor, in October of 2025, Bill put his thirty-plus years of storytelling to work, carrying on his father's message of hope. He writes from a simple conviction: that a story can reach a heart in places a sermon can't. His novels move fast and keep you turning pages, but underneath every one is a question about faith, doubt, and what lasts. He writes for the reader who wants to be gripped — and maybe, quietly, changed.
William also writes the Smidge series for children. He lives and writes in the mountains
of Western Maryland.
He does not only write supernatural suspense. Enough to Cover Us is a family story that runs from 1943 to 2011, held together by a quilt sewn from a soldier's uniform and his wife's wedding dress. It is quieter than the Unseen Truth books, and it is about the things families never get around to saying out loud.
Browse the complete Unseen Truth series at unseentruthbooks.com. To learn more about the heart behind the books, visit unseentruth.org.
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