Guided By His Hand

When his unit is ambushed in the remote Sistan desert of Afghanistan, Sergeant Caleb Mercer is left alone, wounded, and without hope of rescue. With no water, no shade, and no clear path out of the wilderness, the desert becomes his enemy; and his crucible. For weeks, Caleb drags his broken body across an endless sea of dust and silence. Fever and thirst gnaw at him. Hallucinations taunt him with false visions of water and voices long gone. Yet in the midst of despair, God leaves him signs: faint grooves in the earth, fragments of cloth and metal, whispers of Scripture remembered in the stillness. Each small relic becomes a sermon, each fragile discovery a reminder that he is not forsaken. As days stretch into weeks, the line between life and death blurs. But Caleb clings to one vow: Still Yours. And when rescue finally breaks through, the soldier emerges not only alive, but forever changed; his suffering transformed into testimony. Guided By His Hand is a harrowing yet hope-filled novel of survival, faith, and redemption. It is the story of how a soldier found his way home, not by strength or chance, but by the hand of God who never left him.