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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | March 25, 2026 · 5:00 am

Spotlight Virtual Book Tour

#5 in The Lighthouse series

Christian Fiction / Thriller

Date Published: 12-31-2025

Publisher: Besondy Publishing LLC

What if the Future of Faith Depended on a Song?

DelivRus, a world-famous Christian rock band, confronts its darkest
threat—from the world outside, and from the pride within.

It’s 2041, and a single world government is striving to strip nations of
sovereignty and faith. But the music of DelivRus has been a bulwark against
the global attack on faith. That has made the band and its leaders a target
for destruction.

Tarnished drummer Charley Austin, 21, and untested songwriter Mia Johansen
have been called to reunite the famous band for a high-stakes comeback tour
that could ignite widespread spiritual revival—or end in catastrophe.

But as they prepare, supernatural forces infect Charley and Mia with pride,
turning ambition into arrogance, loyalty into rivalry, and every creative
difference into a potential fracture.

What begins as personal tension threatens to destroy DelivRus on the inside,
even as external forces are being directed to end the band’s existence
in a two-pronged attack of destruction.

With political intrigue and spiritual warfare raging in the shadows, the stage
becomes the ultimate battleground—not just for a fractured world, but
for the souls of Charley and Mia as faith and pride collide in heart-pounding
suspense.

Fans of Frank Peretti will enjoy how Besondy gives dimension and character to
evil dark angels.

Fans of C.S. Lewis’ early works will appreciate how evil forces in
Besondy’s novel slyly plot how to deceive and destroy the main
characters.

Fans of Charles Martin will like how Besondy drags you deeper into the night
so that truth can burn away the lies, reorienting your soul.

Spotlight is Book Five in the award-winning The Lighthouse series of Christian
thrillers.

The Hidden Saboteur

The Chase

The Snare

Road to Nineveh

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The novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone read. Order your copy today and
enter the fight for humility, unity, and faith that resonates like
today’s headline news.

About the Author

Twelve-time award-winning author Charles Besondy published his first
Christian thriller in 2018. His works tell riveting stories of the spiritual
battle for our hearts.

Besondy’s The Lighthouse series consists of 5 novels, a novella, and a short
story.

He lives with his wife in Lakeway, Texas.

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Spotlight – Surviving the Fatherland

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Historical Fiction

Date Published: March 15, 2017

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***An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel***

***Winner 2017 National Indie Excellence Award***

“This book needs to join the ranks of the classic survivor stories of WWII such as “Diary of Anne Frank” and “Man’s Search for Meaning”. It is truly that amazing!” InD’taleMagazine

“This family saga is wonderfully written and, aside from the emotional ramifications, very easy to read. I stayed up too late a couple of nights reading it…I highly recommend this book!” Long and Short Reviews

Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander’s SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the children’s war.

SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND tells the true and heart-wrenching stories of Lilly and Günter struggling with the terror-filled reality of life in the Third Reich, each embarking on their own dangerous path toward survival, freedom, and ultimately each other. Based on the author’s own family and anchored in historical facts, this story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the strength of war children.

When her father goes off to war, seven-year-old Lilly is left with an unkind mother who favors her brother and chooses to ignore the lecherous pedophile next door. A few blocks away, twelve-year-old Günter also looses his father to the draft and quickly takes charge of supplementing his family’s ever-dwindling rations by any means necessary.

As the war escalates and bombs begin to rain, Lilly and Günter’s lives spiral out of control. Every day is a fight for survival. On a quest for firewood, Lilly encounters a dying soldier and steals her father’s last suit to help the man escape. Barely sixteen, Günter ignores his draft call and embarks as a fugitive on a harrowing 47-day ordeal–always just one step away from execution.

When at last the war ends, Günter grapples with his brother’s severe PTSD and the fact that none of his classmates survived. Welcoming denazification, Lilly takes a desperate step to rid herself once and for all of her disgusting neighbor’s grip. When Lilly and Günter meet in 1949, their love affair is like any other. Or so it seems. But old wounds and secrets have a way of rising to the surface once more.

About the Author

Annette Oppenlander is an award-winning writer, literary coach and educator. As a bestselling historical novelist, Oppenlander is known for her authentic characters and stories based on true events, coming alive in well-researched settings. Having lived in Germany the first half of her life and the second half in various parts in the U.S., Oppenlander inspires readers by illuminating story questions as relevant today as they were in the past. Oppenlander’s bestselling true WWII story, Surviving the Fatherland, was elected to IWIC’s Hall of Fame and won the 2017 National Indie Excellence Award. Her historical time-travel trilogy, Escape from the Past, takes readers to the German Middle Ages and the Wild West. Uniquely, Oppenlander weaves actual historical figures and events into her plots, giving readers a flavor of true history while enjoying a good story. Oppenlander shares her knowledge through writing workshops at colleges, libraries and schools. She also offers vivid presentations and author visits. The mother of fraternal twins and a son, she lives with her husband and old mutt, Mocha, in Bloomington, Ind.

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