The Last Peg

Aren trusts wood because it fails honestly. Men do not. When Noah commissions an enormous vessel on dry ground, the master carpenter accepts for the challenge, the wages, and the chance to create something no other man could build. He does not accept Noah’s warning.

As the ark rises above a world consumed by violence, false worship, and men of renown, Aren comes to know every beam, chamber, seam, and peg. He watches Noah obey without compromise while his own family fractures beneath the weight of the work. Then the animals come.

Aren has spent a lifetime believing skill can make him safe. But when the final peg is driven and the door begins to close, he must face the truth he has resisted: a man may build the refuge, understand the refuge, and still remain outside it.

The Last Peg is a sweeping biblical historical novel about obedience, pride, judgment, mercy, and the terrible danger of standing near salvation without ever entering by faith.