Faith-based fantasy fiction for mature youth & adults

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Blending post-apocalyptic survival with timeless themes of forgiveness, hope, and redemption, Sacred Caverns: Guardians of the Gateway invites readers into a faith-inspired mystery that will leave them questioning what lies hidden within, and how far they would go to protect it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I grew up in North Idaho with my nose in a book and a pen in my hand, endlessly writing stories and poems.

Somewhere between adulthood and midlife, I put the pen down, only to pick it up again at age 50. What began as a childhood dream to write a faith-based fantasy fiction novel became something much deeper: a weaving together of real-life locations where I have lived and hunted, authentic relationship struggles, and moral dilemmas that mirror life itself.

Many of the characters and conflicts in Sacred Caverns: Guardians of the Gateway are reflections of my own relationships and my quest to reconcile past traumas and hurts. Through character dialogue, I’ve been able to confront my own brokenness and discover God’s healing plan. Writing this novel over a two-year period has been part of my personal journey: a way to face wounds, rediscover my voice, and illuminate the truth that God restores relationships, heals the deepest places of the soul, and strengthens our faith in what is possible.

Sacred Caverns: Guardians of the Gateway also draws from real-world science; geology, geography, and quantum theory, while engaging with biblical questions about obedience, calling, and sacrifice.

Sacred Caverns: Guardians of the Gateway interweaves three storylines into one, carrying readers on a journey of faith, courage, and the ultimate call to lay everything down in obedience to God.

Stay tuned
in 2027-2028 for the full trilogy: Sacred Caverns: The Convergence and Sacred Caverns: Borrowed Time

PENNY JOY - AUTHOR

Born & raised in North Idaho

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What is it all about?

The machines didn't destroy the world in fire. They did it quietly, algorithm by algorithm, decision by decision, until the systems humans had trusted with everything made choices no one could take back. Governments fell. Supply chains collapsed. And in the silence that followed, people were left to figure out who they were without the infrastructure that had defined them.

That was three years ago. In the rugged mountains of North Idaho, survival has become the only religion most people have left.

Elara and Finn used to be close, the kind of close that only comes from shared history and shared faith. Now they're just two people who know each other's worst moments and have never found the words to move past them. When a desperate need for food sends them into the backcountry on an elk hunt, they're not looking for reconciliation. They're looking for meat to get through winter so their families can survive another year.

What they find changes everything.

Deep in the forest, they uncover an extraordinary secret. A cavern alive with mystery draws them into a realm that transcends time and reality itself, a place where messages are etched in stone, water, and light. The deeper they go, the more the cavern reveals its sacred purpose: a place where the broken can be restored, wounds reconciled, and faith renewed. Something has been waiting here, long before the collapse, long before their falling out, long before any of it.

But not all forces honor sacred ground.

Federal mining operations and government intrusion threaten to strip Idaho's land for profit, unaware of the cavern's hidden truth. Men with equipment and orders are moving toward the mountain. They don't know what's there. They don't care. As Elara and Finn struggle to mend their friendship and rediscover their faith, they must decide how far they will go to protect what they've found, before its mystery is lost forever.