He buried God the day his father died. Abandoned by his mother and broken by grief, Eli Dawson runs from the Appalachian hollow that raised him - chasing silence in a needle and escape in the dark. At twenty-two, an overdose stops his heart for twenty minutes. In that darkness, a voice calls his name. When he awakens with no medical explanation and no lasting damage, Eli must return to the mountains he fled - to face a daughter he never knew, a woman he once abandoned, and the weight of a calling he cannot ignore. But redemption is not the end of the fight. It is the beginning of obedience. Twenty Minutes in the Dark is a raw Appalachian story of addiction, resurrection, fatherhood, and the Shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to rescue one.
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