This novel contains graphic violence, open door sex, torture, substance abuse, strong language, homophobia, religious extremism, anti-LGBTQ+ persecution, trauma, and PTSD. Intended for mature audiences.

America was never great. It was just better at hiding how broken it’s always been.

Jonah Grady, a gay former SAS operative, escaped the Kentucky mountains and the faith that tried to erase him. He was never coming back to the Dominion. But when his estranged parents die in a suspicious car crash, he returns to settle their estate and bury what’s left.

He walks right into a trap.

Drugged and dumped in the wilderness, Jonah becomes the sacrificial lamb in a “Redemption Hunt,” a twisted game run by fanatics who believe his death will erase their sins and cleanse their souls.

They made a fatal miscalculation. They didn't just catch a sinner; they caught an operative who learned long ago how to turn pain into a weapon.

God may forgive them. Jonah won't.

Twenty years ago, Jonah Grady left Kentucky with a duffle bag, a death wish, and a promise to himself that he would never come back.

He crossed an ocean, survived SAS Selection, and became the kind of man the Dominion should have left alone. But the Dominion remembers him as a problem it failed to correct. Jonah remembers it as the place that taught him exactly what men are capable of when they think God is watching.

Now his parents are dead, and the country waiting for him is worse than the one he escaped.

The Dominion of America has rewritten its laws, fortified its borders, and learned to dress brutality in scripture. There are camps for citizens who need "curing." AI-assisted fMRI scanners at customs that hunt for lies. Courts that confiscate everything before making deviants disappear. And in the mountains of Appalachia, men with money and power have built their own private sacrament: the Redemption Hunt.

Jonah came home to bury his parents. Instead, he finds a conspiracy running from Harlan County back roads to the highest seats of the Dominion itself. The men hunting him believe his death will cleanse their souls.

Jonah knows sin doesn't wash off that easily. And pain has always been more useful to him than prayer. Every wound gives him information. Every mistake becomes an opening. Every whispered blessing becomes one more reason to make sure the faithful die afraid.

They wanted a sacrifice. They got the wrong man.

Salvation is a brutal dark dystopian survival thriller about faith weaponized, patriotism rotted into fascism, and one queer ex-soldier who refuses to kneel for either. For readers who want tactical violence, political rage, and a gay action hero who kills without mercy and loves without apology.