Four books + prequel out now · Light of the Ark

★★★★★

“Really makes you take a good long look at your own faith.”

Coming from Peretti or Dekker?

  • If you’ve read Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness

    Then Light of the Ark is your series. The same conviction that the unseen war is real and close, worked out through one ordinary family who can’t look away from it.

    Start with Light of the Ark 

  • If you’ve read Ted Dekker’s Circle series

    Then start with Jericho. Two worlds, two timelines, one man carrying both — and every choice in one bleeding into the other.

    Start with Jericho 
Light of the Ark

4 out now · Dark Harmony live

Light of the Ark

One family. One faith. A darkness that has never stopped coming for them. Four books out now — including Book Four, Dark Harmony — plus a prequel, across three generations of the Lights.

Supernatural thriller · Ebook · Audio · Paperback

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Jericho

3 out now · Hope Point preorder Nov 20

Jericho

Two timelines. One bloodline. A war for the soul of mankind — and the only way out is through. Christian dystopian.

Separate universe — start here if you like

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Starting Light of the Ark

  • Most readers start here

    Character and world first. Begin with Light of the Ark, Book One. You meet the Light family before you meet the war, and every reveal lands the way it was written to land.

    Start with Book One 

  • For the impatient

    Action first, in time order. Begin with the prequel, Isaiah Light and the Sea of Darkness. 1962, a small-town Florida pastor, questions he should never have asked. Fastest opening I’ve written.

    Start with the prequel 
Jericho needs no such decision — start at book one

  • Hillary N. — Light of the Ark, Book One

    ★★★★★

    “This storyline is gripping, to say the least. And really makes you take a good long look at your own faith. Absolutely a must-read.”

  • Mary D. — Light of the Ark, Book One

    ★★★★★

    “Immensely thrilling and dramatic. The Ark itself was a complete surprise in the story.”

  • Cherie W. — the Light of the Ark series

    ★★★★★

    “All of these books have been good. Let me change that to great. Very good reads — I want to pick up my Bible.”

  • Robert B. — Light of the Ark, paperback

    ★★★★★

    “What a great read — could not put it down.”

The author

James Bonk

I write Christian supernatural thrillers and dystopian fiction — books built to keep you up past midnight and send you back to your Bible in the morning.

Born in Michigan, raised in Florida, now living in North Georgia. Outside of writing and family, my passions are ice hockey, Bitcoin, reading and BJJ.

My own faith came slowly and then all at once — I was baptized as an adult in the Atlantic on Easter 2012. That’s the current running underneath everything I write.

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Standalone novella · read anytime

Christian’s Look Back at Life

What would you see if you could watch your whole life play back — the choices, the people, the moments that mattered? A standalone about life and death, connected to neither universe and spoiling nothing.

Free when you join the reader list — I’ll send the novella for an email address. You’ll also hear what I’m writing next before anyone else.

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