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Nine Years Lost: A Christian Novel About Legacy, Contentment, and Lost Time
What if you went to sleep tonight... and woke up nine years later?
Chip Jackson has spent years wondering if one wrong decision cost him the life he was supposed to have.
While his two closest friends found extraordinary success in the tech industry, Chip settled into life as a small-town Louisiana plant worker. He loves his wife and three children, serves his church, and tries to honor God. But he can't shake the feeling that he should have given his family more.
Then an invitation to test revolutionary new technology changes everything.
Chip falls asleep during the demonstration...
...and wakes up nine years later.
His children are grown. His wife has built a life without him. His closest friendships have fallen apart. And everyone else has had nine years to move forward while, for Chip, almost no time has passed at all.
Nine years are gone. But what if they weren't simply lost?
As fragments of Chip's memory begin to return, questions emerge about what really happened during the demonstration and whether someone deliberately stole nearly a decade of his life. Finding the truth may explain the years he lost. But it can't give them back. Chip must reconnect with the children who grew up without him, rediscover his place in his own family, and confront the questions that haunted him even before those nine years
Nine Years Lost
An emotional Christian novel about family, faith, and second chances.
A page-turning story built around an unforgettable what-if premise.
A Southern story of regret, contentment, forgiveness, and redemption.
A moving reminder that the life we overlook may be the life we've been searching for.
From the author of the popular Christian mystery novel Bayou Refuge comes a thought-provoking Christian novel about family, faith, regret, and the years we can never get back.
What would you do if you were given another chance at the years you still have?
Chip Jackson has spent years wondering if one wrong decision cost him the life he was supposed to have.
While his two closest friends found extraordinary success in the tech industry, Chip settled into life as a small-town Louisiana plant worker. He loves his wife and three children, serves his church, and tries to honor God. But he can't shake the feeling that he should have given his family more.
Then an invitation to test revolutionary new technology changes everything.
Chip falls asleep during the demonstration...
...and wakes up nine years later.
His children are grown. His wife has built a life without him. His closest friendships have fallen apart. And everyone else has had nine years to move forward while, for Chip, almost no time has passed at all.
Nine years are gone. But what if they weren't simply lost?
As fragments of Chip's memory begin to return, questions emerge about what really happened during the demonstration and whether someone deliberately stole nearly a decade of his life. Finding the truth may explain the years he lost. But it can't give them back. Chip must reconnect with the children who grew up without him, rediscover his place in his own family, and confront the questions that haunted him even before those nine years
Nine Years Lost
An emotional Christian novel about family, faith, and second chances.
A page-turning story built around an unforgettable what-if premise.
A Southern story of regret, contentment, forgiveness, and redemption.
A moving reminder that the life we overlook may be the life we've been searching for.
From the author of the popular Christian mystery novel Bayou Refuge comes a thought-provoking Christian novel about family, faith, regret, and the years we can never get back.
What would you do if you were given another chance at the years you still have?
229 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2026
About the author
Joshua Powell
6 books11 followersJoshua Powell is a pastor, former adjunct professor and PhD graduate from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He enjoys the outdoors, playing board games with his family and reading. Writing has always been an important part of his life both as a way to relieve stress and to help people discover a walk with the Lord or to grow in their relationship with God.
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September 16, 2026
Absolutely wonderful book. What would you do if you lost 9 years of your life? Great characters and great plot.
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