If you enjoy novels that include sci-fi elements, you’d enjoy Craig Matthews’s two-book What the Eye Beholds series. Inverted was just published recently. It also includes fascinating characters wrestling their own insecurities plus the dark side of life.

Charity’s Fire: How Do You Survive When Worlds Collide

Book Blurb: For the two couples on the boat it felt like a vacation. It looked like a vacation. Heck, it even smelled like a vacation- but it was an elaborate trap.

To tip the scales in an ancient war, the plan demanded that at least one of the humans be sacrificed. If successful, this operation would reach through time, alter children, and alienate grandchildren-forever. They were betting everything to change the unrealized destiny of this family- by destroying their hope.

Is destruction, chaos, hatred, and hopelessness always the byproduct of the fog of war? The enemy is counting on it. When worlds collide, surviving the havoc depends on connection, guidance, resilience, and adaptability. Is it too late to wake up and change once the battle is underway?

The fate of millions depends on the answer.

My thoughts: Two couples enjoy an outing on a boat, when they encounter a ferocious storm. But it’s much more than a storm. Unseen entities are at war over the humans, who encounter such devastation. Not only that, but other humans plot their own mayhem. All of these collide on an island in a terrifying story ending with a portentous scene. Charity’s Fire is full of caution, but also hope.

The Perfect Storm meets The Screwtape Letters!

Inverted: Surviving The Upside-down World

Book Blurb: Up is down. Back is forward. Last is first. Weak is strong.

Twenty-five years after surviving the collision of worlds in Charity’s Fire, the next generation has been trained to lead the underground. Then, the eldest runs away to Mars to escape the demands of leadership, and the second in command turns into a selfish rebel- bent on destruction.

Is everything always falling toward chaos?

As millions on earth flee the grip of the tyrannical Global Union, who will lead the outcasts to freedom? Who will rescue the downtrodden? Who will stand in the gap for the persecuted? Where will they run?

Short-sighted human ambitions need to fall to the ground and die before the real plan can emerge from the fertile soil of impossibility.

Are the Rebel and the Runaway really cowards?

Was their preparation another divine distraction?

Or have they suffered enough to be in the perfect position from which the underground can launch an exodus of Biblical proportions?

Inverted.

Strong is weak. First is last. Forward is back. Down is up.

Survive upside-down.

My thoughts: Sometimes you don’t find your “why” until you face a crisis.

In this spiritual thriller, Kars Dee hopes to avoid personal issues by escaping to Mars, where unbeknownst to him, a haven for displaced believers on Earth is being set up. The Domestic Religious Terrorist Act of 2045 has outlawed religious affiliations.

Interconnected conflicts with Earth and in the Heavens interrupt Kars’s mundane life on Mars. But when someone close to him is tortured, he finds the resolve to act courageously. Kars rushes through the unknown to save her, by his wits and prayers. Can he get there in time? At all?

Science fiction fans will relish this intriguing transformation tale teeming with sci-fi schemes and gadgets.

Here’s a short video revealing some of the backstory for Inverted.

Craig Matthews

Please check out Craig’s Amazon Author Page. His LinkedIn page includes a lengthy bio.