ASHES BENEATH THE ALTAR:A Novel of Witness and Mercy.

📖 Ashes Beneath the Altar

A church stands at the heart of a town’s hope—and at the center of its quietest secrets.

When a long-sealed confession resurfaces, loyalties fracture and buried pain shakes the foundations of faith. Ashes Beneath the Altar follows a pastor, a grieving mother, and a young man running from his past as their lives collide around the one place meant to hold them together.

Torn between justice and mercy, truth and reputation, they must decide what kind of church they really are—one that hides its wounds, or one that brings them into the light and lets grace do the mending.

You’ll love this if you enjoy: character-driven Christian fiction, moral tension, redemptive arcs, and small-town secrets that resolve with hope.

Themes: repentance • costly forgiveness • spiritual abuse vs. real accountability • the God who rebuilds from ashes

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