Redemption Song

By: Van de Lay, Roman

Eli Rivers has everything he ever prayed for - a rising Christian band, sold-out arenas, a chart-climbing career, and a marriage built on faith, loyalty, and love. Alongside his band, Raised From Ruin, Eli has become one of the most recognizable voices in Christian music, inspiring thousands with songs about hope, redemption, and perseverance.

Then cancer takes Anna.

The loss shatters him in ways success, fame, and applause cannot heal. What begins as grief slowly becomes something darker. The music that once gave Eli purpose becomes unbearable to sing. His faith begins to crack beneath the weight of anger, exhaustion, and unanswered prayers. The man who once stood before crowds proclaiming hope finds himself unable to recognize the person staring back at him in the mirror.

As addiction tightens its grip, Eli spirals further from the life he built. Relationships fracture. His reputation crumbles. His band struggles to watch him self-destruct, while Eli drifts dangerously close to losing everything that still remains.

But rock bottom is not the end of his story.

Recovery does not come easily, and redemption does not arrive all at once. But through the loyalty of those who refuse to abandon him, Eli begins rebuilding the life he nearly destroyed.

Redemption Song is a raw, emotionally grounded Christian drama about grief, addiction, mercy, second chances, and the God who still runs toward broken sons long before they find the strength to come home.

A deeply human story about loss, healing, forgiveness, and the truth that redemption is lived one difficult step at a time.

"Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you realize that God is the rock at the bottom."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G5PD9VY9
• ISBN13: 9798277770948
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"