The Shepherd's Lie

Micah Cross was an Army chaplain in Khost. He watched an operation get renamed into something cleaner, sat in a tent with three soldiers who wanted to know whether God would understand what they had done, and told them what they needed to hear. Then he filed the report that made it true.

Years later he is working at New Eden Ministries when its founder dies in the pulpit, mid-sermon, in front of a full house. What follows is not grief. It is containment — a board managing a narrative, a widow with a version of events, a journalist who will not leave, and a man named Victor Dane who understands exactly how institutions protect themselves.

Micah recognises the shape of it, because he has been on the other side of it. The Shepherd's Lie is a thriller about moral injury, spiritual authority, and what happens to a man who helped build the thing that is now doing it to him.