Christian Thriller – Selah Third Place Winner

Little seeds we sow, and someday they will grow. What if the ill weeds our society wades in today were being planted decades earlier? What if someone had a chance to uproot them?

Whole families are being murdered in middle-class neighbor-hoods in Colorado Springs. Everyone is looking to Police Lieutenant Darrell Jacobs, one of the only amputees able to return to police work with a mechanical hook, to find the murderer before he kills again.

Bioelectronic genius Callie Williams has followed Darrell’s inspirational story and decided he is a gift from God to test her high-tech prosthetic arm. But Darrell, with scars both inside and out, is not the Godly man she believes or remembers him to be. He also comes with enemies—the face that lurks in the lost parts of Darrell’s memory and the God Darrell can’t forgive. They both want to finish what they started.

Facing clashing elements of faith and yearning, Darrell and Callie must battle an enemy with an agenda that takes homeland security to a whole new battlefield. When Darrell’s inquiry brings the enemy right to his doorstep, he becomes a suspect in Callie’s disappearance. With the help of a young man whose high-speed mind is humorously perplexing, Darrell must outwit the FBI to rescue the woman who is changing his world.

Even if he succeeds, his problems are just beginning as he confronts a new kind of terrorist. The intricate mystery leads him to a plot designed to tear the United States apart—a scheme so vast it may be too much for the police, the FBI and Homeland Security combined. There’s no way for Darrell to stop it alone, but who do you trust when your enemy is someone you know, and the greatest danger might lie in your own heart? A danger that will leave you with the uneasy realization that locking your doors will be useless.

HEA with no cliffhanger.