The Cain Family Thriller Series
The Cain Family Chronicles
The world they see is only part of the truth.
The Cain Family Chronicles is a suspense-driven series exploring what happens when ordinary people are forced to confront a reality far deeper than the one they can see. Each story begins in the visible world—terrorism, political power, media influence, violence, fractured families, buried history, and personal loss—but beneath these events lies another conflict: a hidden struggle involving truth, deception, faith, conscience, and the unseen forces shaping human lives and civilizations.
Archaeologists, pastors, journalists, survivors, skeptics, and seekers are drawn into crises that challenge not only what they believe, but how they understand reality itself. As hidden truths emerge, every character must decide what is real, what is worth sacrificing for, and whether faith is merely inherited tradition—or the missing key to understanding the human story.
Blending geopolitical suspense, spiritual tension, emotional realism, and historical mystery, The Cain Family Chronicles presents a world where public events are often driven by deeper moral and spiritual struggles unfolding just beneath the surface of modern life.
Coming next in the Cain Family Chronicles—The Kilçilar Letters – Book 3
About Ward Tanneberg
Ward began ministry as a young evangelist in 1959 and subsequently has served as a denominational youth director, a Christian college public relations director, a guest lecturer and adjunct professor, a writer and novelist, and pastor in three churches, including 5 years as pastor of the Assembly of God in Forks WA, 23 years as senior pastor of Valley Christian Center, Dublin CA, and 7 years as executive pastor/pastoral care of Westminster Chapel, Bellevue WA. He also served 7 years as executive director of CASA 50+ Network, a ministry training pastors and lay leaders serving older adults in the US and Canada.
Ward lives in the Pacific Northwest. A widower, he has 2 married children, 3 grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, and a sidekick named Gage, the wonder dog. His interests and ministry have taken him to over 50 countries of the world.