LONGWOOD, FL-Looking for a good ghost story that will keep you reading into the night? Reign of Silence reads like a Stephen King novel without the guilt. From its opening pages, this ghost story told from a Christian worldview will draw you into the supernatural and deliver a spine-tingling adventure you can't put down.
Reign of Silence, A Supernatural Tale of Ancient Sin (July, $17.99, 1-59781-378-8), by Tony Martin, is an archetypically classic novel of ghosts and hauntings, a tale of ancient sin resurrected. When Joshua Nix comes to pastor a church in the county seat town of St. Helena, Alabama, he could not have known that his life and worldview would change forever. After the mysterious death of her parents, Meredith Dubose, last surviving descendant of an aristocratic Southern family, experiences psychological trauma. Is her trauma the result of a true "haunting" in the family mansion or a demonic siege? As Joshua seeks to minister to Meredith, he finds himself obsessing over her and her plight, causing strain on his marriage and his church. Joshua soon learns the horrific truth of the supernatural events and a shattering truth about himself.
Unlike Frank Peretti's novels, Reign of Silence delves into the supernatural realm of ghosts and hauntings, not demons or the devil. Martin's characters are full of that rich Southern heritage. Reign of Silence is a frightening story told with an evocative Southern gothic flavor, but it's ultimately a tale of redemption in the face of otherworldly terror.
Tony Martin has been writing since he was a "little bitty guy." He is associate editor of The Baptist Record, news journal of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, with a circulation of 100,000. He has written or co-written material published by LifeWay Christian Resources, Reach Out Ministries, and Group Books. A self-confessed "son of the South," he first became intrigued by the theology of ghosts and hauntings in a class on the occult at Southwestern Seminary. Reign of Silence, his first novel, draws from that research and oral family traditions. He and his wife, Teresa, have two children, Jeremy and Amy.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Reign of Silence through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007