Yield (Children of the Burning Heart)

Giving up isn’t an option. It’s an adventure. Following a car crash, Chase McKinney wakes in a swirling mist and witnesses the murder of children via a three-sided portal into another world. He steps through in search of young men called Chosen to help track the killer and child-stealer, Ancient Piper. But when Chase finds things sometimes pass through him and he can fly, it’s clear to him different rules govern. And when he finally locates the Chosen, he soon learns he must survive this world, with its circa 1900s technology wed to supernatural dangers. For God has a plan for him beyond rescuing children—a seemingly irrational plan to experience life more abundantly. Chase just wants to get back to his wife and family and fix the damage he caused obsessing over his job. But to do so means relying on young Shadowboxer—a leader who second-guesses himself—and learn a difficult lesson from the last person he would expect to see in this bizarre place. He and the Chosen must also sail to a deadly beachhead and a fortress-turned-prison. Because there, a master deceiver plots to establish a world opposed to God, and brainwashed children are only one factor in his death campaign against God-followers. Meanwhile, Chase’s body lies in a coma. Can his consciousness reunite with it? Or will one obstacle be too much to overcome? Himself. Control or give up control? Chase must choose and perhaps die in the choosing. Or, maybe worse, he might live—unchanged.