The 144,000

They believed they were the stone cut without hands.

They were wrong.

For decades, a violent sect called the Stone has hidden inside the Remnant Church like parasites-teaching in secret that the 144,000 are the "stone cut without hands" from Daniel 2, and that they are authorized to purge the unholy before the Second Coming.

The Stone's leader, Miriam Cross, believes she is the Lamb's wife. She has prepared her followers for a final, global massacre. Now, with the solar eclipse approaching-which she believes is the opening of the seventh seal-the Stone is ready to strike.

Counter-terror operative Darius Webb, a former Remnant Church member who lost his mother to the Stone, leads Operation Bereans: a desperate mission to stop the Stone before the sealing. But to defeat them, Webb must first answer a deadly question: What does the Bible actually say about the 144,000, the stone, and the Second Coming?

The answer will send Webb into the heart of the Stone's compound-where Miriam Cross waits with a machete in one hand and a Bible in the other.

"You are not the stone," Webb tells her. "You are standing where the stone is about to fall."