The world's first murder was not a crime of passion. It was a declaration of war.

Six thousand years later, two young men collide at Princeton: Sebastian-brilliant, magnetic, raised from obscurity for a destiny he cannot name-and Adam, a preacher's son with an uncanny gift for showing people the best versions of themselves while running hard from the faith of his childhood. Their friendship feels like providence. It is-just not the kind either of them imagines.

For decades they believe they are building the same future-healing nations, feeding the hungry, inspiring a fractured world. But as economies collapse, wars ignite, and ancient prophecies begin keeping their appointments with terrifying precision, the truth surfaces: the two friends have been traveling in opposite directions all along. One toward a throne prepared for him before he was born. The other away from everything he was raised to believe-and straight back into its arms.

The murder at the dawn of time was not the end of a story. It was merely a rehearsal for evil's greatest attempt to finally overthrow good.

Book One of The Gleanings Trilogy.