Not just a book — an immersive experience into the first love story, complete with carefully wrought poetic text, prophetic art, and audio backed by spiritually stimulating music.

Word, image, voice and music arrive together — pages turn with the automated reading (silent manual mode also available), with a pause at each illustration to allow the image to impact your subconscious.

The app includes an art gallery. Highly detailed, zoomable illustrations — Pam Herrick's twelve paintings can be viewed on their own apart from the story, each with the publisher's notes and tips on how to view prophetic art. Includes seven unpublished earlier versions that never made the book, with an explanation of the process.

This is Eden from the inside. An allegory that walks into the spaces that the Genesis account leaves open: what Love was doing before we arrived, what passed between God and the two They had made, and what making room for us cost. Here God is not a solitary figure handing down instruction, but a family — already whole, already delighting, and choosing to widen.

It asks, too, what the tree really was. Not knowledge for its own sake, but the taking up of judgment: the moment we learned to measure ourselves and came away wanting. Along with knowledge came shame, and we hid. Love was prepared with a perfect response.

This could be the beginning of our story. Intention, creation, exhilaration, relationship, shame and redemption.

An illustrated book and an audiobook in one. Read it yourself, or let the narration turn the pages for you.

Enjoy the experience.

The Cost of Love (COL)
Author: Joshua Scott
Illustrations: Pam Herrick
Published by Reclaimed.US, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with the author's permission.