Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    When Heaven Weeps
    Unavailable
    When Heaven Weeps
    Unavailable
    When Heaven Weeps
    Ebook551 pages9 hours

    When Heaven Weeps

    By Ted Dekker

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    A thriller unlike any you have ever read. A love strong enough to bring a tremor to your bones. A sacrifice powerful enough to make heaven weep.

    At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked solider, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life and death on a peaceful Bosnian community. In a few short hours, this young man was confronted by more love—and hate—than most experience in a lifetime.

    Years later, Jan has become a world-renowned writer with widespread influence in the United States, his past buried deep in his memory. Until, at the most inopportune time, the game Jan witnessed comes back to haunt him . . . and unwittingly leads him to a beautiful broken woman caught in an underworld of crime.

    Jan must now defeat an evil rarely seen. But there is a price. One that even this war-scarred solider can’t imagine.

    Praise for When Heaven Weeps:

    “Ted Dekker is one of the most remarkable creative writers of our time . . . engrossing and spiritually inspiring . . . highly recommended!” —Bill Bright, founder and president, Campus Crusade for Christ International

    “When Heaven Weeps is a first in Christian fiction: a bold, knock-your-socks off, four-hankie, romantic supernatural thriller. And a brilliantly written one to boot. Hang on for something brand new.” —Mark Olsen, screenwriter and bestselling author of Hadassah

    • Book 2 in the Heaven/Martyr’s Song trilogy
      • Book 1: Heaven’s Wager
      • Bonus book 1.5: The Martyr’s Song
      • Book 2: When Heaven Weeps
      • Book 3: Thunder of Heaven
    • Book length: app. 80,000 words
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 28, 2005
    ISBN9781418509200

    Read more from Ted Dekker

    Related to When Heaven Weeps

    Titles in the series (1)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Suspense For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Moving On

      Dec 22, 2019

      Moving On
      4 min read

    • Article

      Mint

      Mar 8, 2022

      YOU CAN SMELL IT before you spot it, one of the first fragrant greetings of spring. Even if it looks like the stems have turned black and the leaves are brown and crispy during the dreary winter months, it’s one of the hardiest herbs in the country—i

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Poisoned Garden

      Nov 3, 2022

      The Poisoned Garden
      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2021

      A type of hickory, it grows by water.So are we fools to drive to the riverthe day after our most savage stormshave finally stopped to seea tree we’ve never seen before?To hike in cold mud through a leafless forest,to behold clearings now clutteredby

      5 min read

    • Article

      O Fortuna, Velut Luna

      Sep 15, 2018

      What is Miss Treece’s trouble, according to a popular notion? The man A has failed to show up. Arousing herself at the restaurant, she fixes her lipstick when her solo supper concludes and takes herself down the stairs situated behind the bar. There,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      May 1, 2023

      At the end of the world, I sat in the dark waiting for you,but you didn’t come. You didn’t save me. At the end we are always alone, candles slowlyburning out, losing the flame for lack of oxygen. You didn’t tell me it would be like this. All of itcam

      2 min read

    • Article

      Angels in Bloom

      Feb 26, 2022

      Angels in Bloom
      4 min read

    • Article

      Grandma Ruth’s UP Truck Stop

      May 10, 2021

      Rachel’s last semester at the University of Michigan would have been easy if not for the news that reached her six weeks before her final exams. It wasn’t a phone call—the phone lines were still down from the most recent blizzard to hit Paradise, she

      28 min read

    • Article

      A Summer Book Is A State Of Mind

      Jan 2, 2020

      This summer, I’m reading Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, again. I’ve read it about 50 times already and plan to read it as many more times as it takes before I get either a repetitive strain injury of the imagination or Stockholm syndrome and am fo

      6 min read

    • Article

      Till We meet Again

      Aug 27, 2021

      Till We meet Again
      4 min read

    • Article

      Poem for Merwin

      Mar 18, 2019

      Poem for Merwin
      3 min read

    • Article

      The DREAM

      Mar 11, 2020

      The DREAM
      9 min read

    • Article

      Little Islands of Faith: The Millions Interviews Tupelo Hassman

      Aug 14, 2019

      To my mind, Catholicism has many of the prettiest and most satisfying ways of evidencing faith. Because we want to touch it, don’t we? The post Little Islands of Faith: The Millions Interviews Tupelo Hassman appeared first on The Millions.

      9 min read

    • Article

      Named

      Mar 19, 2018

      Named
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Joys Of Reading With A Second Grader

      Nov 18, 2019

      My daughter would need a chair to reach them, and I could see it was this fact—not my endorsement of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classics—that sold her on them. The post The Joys of Reading with a Second Grader appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Oak Wife

      Nov 3, 2022

      The Oak Wife
      4 min read

    • Article

      Penny

      Jul 2, 2020

      Penny
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Sublime Poetics of Linda Gregg

      Nov 16, 2023

      Linda Gregg was looking to model truth, that finicky thing impossible to hold in its entirety. The post The Sublime Poetics of Linda Gregg appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Echo and Narcissus

      Mar 7, 2022

      Echo and Narcissus
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Library

      Nov 4, 2021

      The Library
      2 min read

    • Article

      Things Fall Apart: On Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’

      Jan 16, 2018

      It’s a care, a real care, when a writer whose work you love takes on a project like a seasonal quartet. The potential for readerly woe is plain: four novels forced into a form already replete with corny allegories and tired themes. Ali Smith begins h

      10 min read

    Reviews for When Heaven Weeps

    4/5

    76 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      This entire trilogy by Dekker is both an enthralling read, and one of the most beautiful depictions of God's love. Although it is only a fiction novel, it can read almost like a devotional. Deeply touching.
    • 5/5
      This was the first Ted Dekker book that I read, and still remains one of my favourites. It is a parable based on the Biblical story of Hosea, and is a story of unconditional love.The book is written in a few 'parts', the biggest difference being between the first and second part. The first part introduces the reader to two main characters, and is set in war-torn Bosnia. The rest of the book is set a few years down the line...The book is fairly violent and pretty graphic, so don't read it if you are of a sensitve nature. The story however is enthralling.
    • 5/5
      Involving to the last pageTed Dekker is a new author to me, but I picked this because of an enthusiastic quote by Frank Peretti, whose own writing I always enjoy - two favourites by him are 'The Oath' and 'The Visitation'.Though 'When Heaven Weeps' is written from a Christian world-view it doesn't thrust the author's beliefs in your face. The characters are well-drawn and totally believable, and although two of the main characters are Christians, others are not.The story is described as a romantic thriller - don't choose it expecting 'Mills & Boon', but if you are looking for 'thrilling', 'breathtaking' and 'passionate', this is the one. I started and finished it within half a day, unable to leave the characters without knowing what was going to happen to them.The roots of the story lie in an ugly and shocking incident in Bosnia during WW2. The effects of this on some of those present continue to resonate twenty years later, when the bulk of the novel is set. The story is primarily about people and choices and is so well written that I, for one, found myself caring passionately about the people and was mentally urging one of them in particular not to make a particular disastrous choice. Right to the end, you can't be sure what is going to happen.I will certainly be reading other novels by this author.