A Church in the Wilderness

The Waldensians hid Scripture under hearthstones. They memorized the Psalms by firelight. They sang psalms on their way to the stake. History called them heretics. Scripture called them something else.

Marco Villani is thirty-three years old, chained in a cell in the Piedmont Alps, and running out of days. For years he carried pages of God's Word through mountain passes to communities who had no other way to receive it. Now the institution that called itself the Church of God has caught him, and a courteous man with a ledger is asking him to sign his name to a lie.

He will not sign.

What happens in the weeks that follow is the story this novel tells. A story about a man stripped down to what actually holds. About a love he never got to speak. About an old cellmate who is more than he appears. And about the God who saw every one of those mountain communities and has not stopped seeing.

A Church in the Wilderness is historical fiction with a prophetic heartbeat. The powers that hunted the Waldenses are described in Revelation, in Daniel, in the words of Jesus himself, and they are not finished. This novel was written to prepare you for the days ahead.

For readers who believe the church in the wilderness has always needed its witnesses, and that the story is not over.