America was never great. It was just better at hiding how broken it’s always been.
Dark, heavy content warnings: Jonah Grady, a gay former SAS operative, escaped the Kentucky mountains, the faith that condemned him, and the family that tried to erase him. He was never going back.
But when his estranged parents die in a suspicious car crash, Jonah returns to the Dominion of America, a Christian nationalist regime where queer people disappear into conversion camps and brutality is dressed in scripture.
He walks right into a trap.
Drugged and dumped in the wilderness, Jonah becomes the sacrificial lamb in a Redemption Hunt: a twisted survival game run by zealots who believe killing him will erase their sins and cleanse their souls.
They made a fatal mistake.
They didn’t just catch a sinner. They caught an operative who learned long ago how to turn pain into a weapon.
God may forgive them. Jonah won’t.
Salvation is book 1 in the Jonah Grady series, an LGBTQ+ dystopian survival thriller featuring:
- Gay action hero
- Dark revenge thriller
- Dark, distressing, severe trauma and mature situations
- Former SAS operative
- Deadly survival game
- Theocratic dystopia
- Religious trauma
- Political rage
- Found family themes
- Complete book 1 survival arc with series continuation
- Heavy content warnings
"Frank Faustino paints a portrait of an America [that's] broken... This story felt so real, and as I read, I had echoes of what is happening in the world today. [A] compelling story of a memorable character... and his determination to break down Dominion."
- Romuald Dzemo, Readers' Favorite (5 Stars)
"The most fascinating part of Frank Faustino's novel is the impeccable worldbuilding... Salvation is a resonant story... The novel skillfully warns readers about what happens when leaders start to believe that God appointed them. Readers will barely have time to catch their breath."
- -Christian Sia, Readers' Favorite (5 Stars)
