Cheryl Winstead

When Emma Caldwell returns to Haven Ridge for her grandfather's funeral, she expects grief, memories, and the ache of old faith. She does not expect to inherit a weathered journal filled with coded Scripture references, missing pages, and a warning written in her grandfather's hand: If you are reading this, the danger has already begun. As Emma follows Samuel Caldwell's trail through a forgotten cemetery, a burned textile mill, hidden church records, and decades of buried secrets, she uncovers a truth powerful people have spent forty years trying to keep silent.
A man was buried under the wrong name. A witness vanished. A woman fled to protect her child. And someone in Haven Ridge is still willing to kill to keep the past from rising. With Deputy Luke Mercer at her side, Emma must confront not only a dangerous conspiracy, but the wounded faith she left behind. The Journal of Ash and Light is a gripping Christian suspense novel about truth, forgiveness, courage, and the light of God that remains even in the darkest places.