The day Adam Cole graduates from college, he receives two job offers.
The first comes from Fyre Inc.—a gleaming glass tower in the heart of the city, promising a corner office, a six-figure salary, and a fast track to the top. The CEO, the magnetic Lucian Fyre, sees something special in Adam. "You belong with us," he writes.
The second comes from Light Co.—a modest company in a converted factory outside of town, offering fair pay, meaningful work, and a CEO named Joshua who asks an unsettling question: "What do you want your life to be about?"
Adam chooses the tower.
What follows is a journey through ambition and compromise, success and emptiness, golden handcuffs and a soul slowly dying in a tailored suit. Adam rises through the ranks at Fyre Inc., gaining everything the world promises—and losing everything that matters. Until the day he finds himself alone on a loading dock, broken beyond repair, whispering a single word into the darkness: Help.
And somehow, impossibly, Joshua hears him.
The CEO is a modern parable about grace, redemption, and the job offer that never expires. In the tradition of Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven and William P. Young's The Shack, this allegorical novel reimagines the transformative message of Ephesians 2 for readers searching for purpose in a world that measures worth by performance.
Because the most important career decision you'll ever make isn't about salary or status.
It's about whose voice you follow home.
For readers of inspirational fiction, anyone who has ever felt trapped by success, and everyone who needs to be reminded that it's never too late to start over.
