book cover of The Permission
 

The Permission

(2026)
(The first book in the Cain Family Chronicles series)
A novel by

 
 
John Cain never imagined evil would come for him this way.

For months, he has been quietly unraveling—a pastor burned out behind a practiced smile, his marriage strained by unspeakable loss. His wife lives with relentless guilt over the accidental death of their youngest child, a tragedy neither can name without breaking. Prayer feels routine. Faith feels thin. God feels distant.

Then comes September, and violence is released.

Gunfire rips through John Cain’s church as worshippers are taken hostage. Boston breathes in a biological nightmare it cannot see. Christian pilgrims from John’s congregation vanish in Israel. Three acts of terror; one deliberate design.
What appears to be global chaos is, in truth, a coordinated strike'''evil moving with precision, as if permission has been granted.

The Permission is a gripping geopolitical thriller with a profound spiritual heartbeat—an unflinching exploration of how faith endures while Darkness is allowed to move, and answers do not come.

Sometimes evil does not need to be powerful.
It only needs permission.


Genre: Thriller

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