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Begin at the true beginning

The Last Witnesses takes place before The Seven Lampstands. Caleb Hollister and Theodore Carver are ordinary men carrying an impossible calling: to stand as the two witnesses of Revelation while the world turns against the light they bear. Start here for the chronological first chapter of the whole saga.

Start with When the Lampstands Burn

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Start with the flagship series

The city is not the refuge. No Safe City opens The Seven Lampstands with Lexy Stanford, a Springfield nurse whose brother is taken in the night, and five churches living under the Covenant Roll. Join the insider list and the first three chapters are free.

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The judgments are falling

Hail mingled with blood falls on Saline County, and a third of the land burns. The Trumpets opens with Jesse Hardin, a wheat farmer deciding who he worships when the land he worshiped is ash and the Concord's help costs a mark.

Start with The Burning Third

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One complete novel, tonight

No series math: a complete standalone. Someone is burning the churches of Juniper Falls, Oregon, and leaving one thing unburned at every scene, each fire staged as a letter tied to the seven letters in Revelation.

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A mercy that might be a murder

The other standalone. The patients on Ward 5 die at 2:17 in the morning, every one of them was supposed to, and the man behind the peaceful deaths chairs the review that would judge anyone who accuses him.

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