When Elijah Cross gets the email announcing his father's death, he expects grief. Not an invitation.
The funeral doesn't feel like an ending—it feels like onboarding. Logos on the programs. Security where there shouldn't be any. "Condolences" that sound like contracts. And a quiet sense that Cross Meridian isn't mourning its fallen king... it's repositioning him.
Elijah came home to bury a man. Instead, he finds a machine: a megachurch empire fused to private tech, where confession is currency and salvation is a brand. The closer he gets to the truth behind his father's legacy, the more he realizes the most dangerous thing Cross Meridian ever produced wasn't a sermon.
It was a system.
The Sins We Engineered is Book One of The Apocrypha of Ash, a literary thriller saga of institutional horror, corporate faith, and the cost of truth.
