The Sins We Engineered

When Elijah Cross gets the email announcing his father's death, he expects grief. Not an invitation. The funeral doesn't feel like an ending-it feels like onboarding. Logos on the programs. Security where there shouldn't be any. "Condolences" that sound like contracts. And a quiet sense that Cross Meridian isn't mourning its fallen king… it's repositioning him. Elijah came home to bury a man. Instead, he finds a machine: a megachurch empire fused to private tech, where confession is currency and salvation is a brand. The closer he gets to the truth behind his father's legacy, the more he realizes the most dangerous thing Cross Meridian ever produced wasn't a sermon. It was a system. The Sins We Engineered is Book One of The Apocrypha of Ash, a literary thriller saga of institutional horror, corporate faith, and the cost of truth.