{"product_id":"the-reluctant-messiah-cassian-eldreth-9798276789361","title":"The Reluctant Messiah","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Reluctant Messiah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel by Cassian Eldreth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Elias Calder is finished with miracles, prophecy, and the academic world that branded him a fraud.\u003cbr\u003eAll he wants is to disappear into the Egyptian desert and dig until the past swallows him whole.One moonless night beneath the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, he breaks open a sealed Herodian-era jar that should never have existed. Inside is a two-thousand-year-old scroll written in Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew, carbon-dated to the time of Christ. The final lines contain his full name, his exact date of birth, and seven impossible signs he is destined to perform, ending with \"the sun shall stand still over Sinai.\"At first Elias laughs it off as the cruelest hoax imaginable.\u003cbr\u003eThen the first sign happens on global livestream.\u003cbr\u003eThen the second.\u003cbr\u003eThen the third.Within days he is the most wanted man on Earth: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Vatican dispatches its deadliest fixer to bury the evidence forever.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn American megachurch cult of millions proclaims him the final prophet and prepares to crown him on live television.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA rogue Israeli general sees the coming signs as the trigger for biblical borders and mobilises to make them come true, by force if necessary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eHunted across Cairo's City of the Dead, betrayed by the one woman he dares to trust, Elias races to discover who wrote his name on a scroll two millennia before he was born, and whether he is saviour, pawn, or the architect of the apocalypse.Because the seventh sign is only hours away...\u003cbr\u003eand when the sun stops over Mount Sinai, the world will never be the same.A heart-pounding archaeological thriller in the tradition of Dan Brown and Steve Berry, The Reluctant Messiah is a story of ancient prophecy colliding with modern terror, where one man must decide if he will fulfil a destiny written before he was born, or destroy the scroll and damn humanity to prove it wrong.\"Smart, sexy, and relentlessly suspenseful. You will not guess the ending.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cassian Eldreth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798276789361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Cassian Eldreth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171360415999,"sku":"9798276789361","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reluctant-messiah-cassian-eldreth-9798276789361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}