In the depths of grief, a mysterious invitation draws a father to a forsaken shack, where an encounter with the divine transforms his shattered world.
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In the depths of grief, a mysterious invitation draws a father to a forsaken shack, where an encounter with the divine transforms his shattered world.
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there...
will contain mild spoilers
Mild marital affection; no explicit sexual content
Child murder off-page; bloody crime scene; recalled beatings
Occasional mild profanity
Alcoholic abusive father in backstory; cautionary
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present
Central Christian theology; dialogues with the Trinity
No fantasy magic present
Theological discussion of evil and spiritual darkness
Critiques of institutional religion and hierarchy
Profound grief and depression; no attempt depicted
Child abduction/murder; childhood physical abuse by father
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