Daniel is young, brilliant, and faithful to God. Then Babylon takes him captive.

Torn from Jerusalem and brought into King Nebuchadnezzar’s empire, Daniel is chosen for the House of the Tablet, where Babylon will remake him into a servant of its throne.

He will learn its language, its literature, and its forbidden wisdom alongside three fellow Jewish exiles, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

But Babylon does not simply want Daniel’s mind.

It wants his allegiance.

Every lesson, every privilege, and every threat is designed to make him surrender his God one small choice at a time.

And when the high priest’s son targets Daniel and his friends, refusing to conform could cost them far more than their future.

Far away in Jerusalem, Ariela, the girl Daniel loves, risks her life as a secret messenger for Jeremiah the prophet.

As Babylon’s armies close around Judah and Jeremiah’s warnings grow darker, Ariela must decide whom she can trust before her city, and her world, are destroyed.

Yet the battle for Daniel and Ariela is not merely earthly.

Behind Babylon’s gods stand ancient Watchers. Archangels move unseen. Kingdoms rise and fall by the hand of Yahweh, the one true God who remains sovereign, even in exile.

Daniel: Exile in Babylon retells the biblical story of Daniel as a supernatural adventure of faith, resistance, and spiritual warfare.

Meticulously researched, faithful to Scripture, for readers who enjoy epic Bible novels, supernatural thrillers, and the moral imagination of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ted Dekker, and Frank Peretti.

Daniel: Exile in Babylon is Book 1 in The Daniel Trilogy, part of the interconnected Chronicles of the Watchers universe.

For the biblical and historical foundations behind the story, explore the companion volume, The Spiritual World of Daniel and Babylon.