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  1. Ignatius Press Novels

    First Chapter: The Sleeping Witness

    August 11, 2017 5:59 pm Leave a Comment

    Read the first chapter of the novel The Sleeping Witness by Fiorella De Maria. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! Father Gabriel never felt the slow encroachment of middle age more painfully than on an evening such as this. It was… Read more »

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  2. First Chapter: Barely a Crime

    March 15, 2016 6:56 pm 1 Comment

    Read the first chapters of the novel Barely a Crime by Robert Ovies. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! PROLOGUE Kieran Lynch was born in a pine bed in his parents’ lower flat in West Belfast, Ireland, on a night that… Read more »

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  3. First Chapter: A Cry of Stone

    November 5, 2015 2:43 pm Leave a Comment

    Read the first chapter of the novel A Cry of Stone by Michael O’Brien. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! 1 First she was small. She was very, very small, and that was good because no one could see her. Only… Read more »

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  4. Ignatius Press Novels

    First Chapter: Elijah in Jerusalem

    October 22, 2015 2:55 pm 2 Comments

    Read the first chapters of the novel Elijah in Jerusalem by Michael O’Brien. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! PROLOGUE Look closely. Here is the ocean of mankind. See the depths and the surface waves, the currents converging or parting, swift… Read more »

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  5. First Chapter: Dayspring

    October 14, 2015 6:09 pm Leave a Comment

    Read the first chapter of the novel Dayspring by Harry Sylvester. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! You can also read the Foreword by Philip Jenkins here on this site. I HE SLEPT AWKWARDLY, in the attitude of complete exhaustion, his… Read more »

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  6. First Chapter: Voyage to Alpha Centauri

    September 21, 2015 6:50 pm 1 Comment

    Read the first chapters of the novel Voyage to Alpha Centauri by Michael O’Brien. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! 5 October 2097 A week from now I leave this sanctuary—my home, my solitude, my consolation. I have almost completed packing,… Read more »

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  7. First Chapter: We’ll Never Tell Them

    August 28, 2015 6:02 pm Leave a Comment

    Read the first chapters of the novel We’ll Never Tell Them by Fiorella de Maria. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! PROLOGUE She had been to this place before. That was why, in her darkest hour, Kristjana had returned; she remembered… Read more »

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  8. First Chapter: Everywhere in Chains

    July 29, 2015 5:16 pm 1 Comment

    Read the first chapter of the novel Everywhere in Chains by James Casper. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! 1 The Mouse in the Wall Lake Superior is the largest, deepest, and coldest of the five Great Lakes. The other four… Read more »

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  9. First Chapters: Poor Banished Children

    July 8, 2015 6:58 pm 1 Comment

    Read the first chapters of the novel Poor Banished Children by Fiorella de Maria. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! Dreams of the Dead Death has come for me again. The others are already lost. I heard their screams as I… Read more »

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  10. First Chapter: Looking for the King

    June 15, 2015 6:07 pm Leave a Comment

    Read the first chapter of the novel Looking for the King by David C. Downing. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! Chapter 1 Glastonbury, England Mid-April 1940 “Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur with his wife, Guinevere.” Tom McCord studied… Read more »

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