Church of Manufactured Grace: Book Two of The Apocrypha of Ash

Five years after Cross Meridian burned, Grace Cross is still trying to live with what survived.The world has turned her trauma into documentaries, sermons, and a symbol she never asked to become. Then Quinn Hale builds a rising movement around her name-and Solace Dynamics begins appearing behind it.What looks like worship becomes infrastructure. Confession is data again. Trauma is a product. And somewhere inside the new machine, people are disappearing.When a trail leads Grace, Elijah, and journalist Morgan Kline toward a young woman marked for "e;integration,"e; Grace is forced back into the architecture her family built.To stop the next version of Cross Meridian, Grace will have to do more than survive it. She'll have to decide what happens when the world turns a victim into a prophet-and whether a church can still be burned when it no longer has walls.The Church of Manufactured Grace is Book Two of The Apocrypha of Ash, a literary thriller saga of institutional horror, corporate faith, and the cost of truth.