From Deseret News archives:
LDS novels teach, authors say
Their first book together, "Priceless Discoveries," self-published by BeeJay Publishing, is about a team of three crack East Coast television journalists sent to Utah to do an expose for their boss. Reporter Tim Bradshaw wants to show up the Mormons for the fraud he thinks they are so his daughter won't join the LDS Church. Here's where it gets didactical, but the novel is also a love story. While it takes the reader through the religious investigative process, introducing Mormon doctrine in an easy, conversational style, it also follows the romance between two of the journalists, Bradshaw and Jody Sykes.
That's the foundation of the sequel, published just weeks ago. "The Zion Builders" takes Bradshaw and Sykes, now members of the LDS Church and married, through the fulfillment of Book of Mormon prophesies involving the Nephites and their descendants.
In the sequel the authors use Book of Mormon prophet Jacob's denunciation of unrighteous Nephites (Jacob 3: 3-4) as the launching pad into a discussion of how some of them could have survived the destruction of the Nephite nation. Jacob tells his people that a righteous remnant will be led away from that group.
The fulfillment of that prophesy is found in the book of Alma, within the Book of Mormon, where it speaks of Hagoth the ship builder, about 55 BC. Alma 63: 6-10 is the only reference about people of that period traveling in ships. Thousands of people traveled north in the ships Hagoth built. Some never returned.
No one really knows what happened to the Hagoth ships. But the possibilities are intriguing, Jarvis said.
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