Grayson Anderson has struggled his entire life: witnessing his father being murdered by a wolf, seeing his mother spiral into addiction, and now he’s been thrown into foster care. But when a field trip goes wrong, he’s cast down on a shore of darkness. The celestial sky shines above him while devils lurk in the forest before him. 

When he finds his friends, a Princeps captures them and makes them thralls to the crown. A prophecy has been given to them that a celestial explosion will birth God’s soldiers, Champions who could stop the abominations that lurk behind the kingdom’s barrier. None of the scriptures told them that the Champions were going to come from an airplane.

Grayson is just as cynical about these kingdom dwellers as they are about him. But if he doesn’t prove himself to command their army, he will be executed. If he does not take on the Trials in God’s Heart and discover why He abandoned them, Grayson will never have the chance to go back home. If they fail against the Oppressor, free will can be erased forever.

A sacrifice is to be made for a world that didn’t ask to be saved.