Antipus: The Keeping (The Buried and the Kept)

By Matthew I. Hughes

The sword is drawn; now it must be kept.

On the night the raiders come, the village that buried its swords burns. Jonas kneels in the reeds, his hands empty. His son Kelaiah, nine years old, pulls his wounded mother out of the river and walks north with her to Jershon, while Antipus digs up the sword he laid down eleven days before and goes after the children the raiders carried off.
Years later, Kelaiah is a man with two fathers, one who laid his sword down and one who has carried his for everyone else, and a girl on the city wall who asks him for only one thing: to come back. Then the sons of the covenant, two thousand strong, march south to war. Kelaiah and Antipus march with them, toward Cumeni, toward Judea, and toward an enemy commander whose face Antipus will not let himself see.

Book 4 of The Buried and the Kept: a novel about the God who looks past the face the world reads at a glance, and sees the heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HB728ZMW
• ISBN13: 9798951321084
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: M. Hughes Books
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.5"