The greatest story ever told, reimagined for our time

The Last Adam is a gripping thriller that boldly brings the beloved story of the Nativity into the modern world. The stakes have never been higher.

About

Ron Echols is an award-winning business executive, a 4-time Telly Award-winning producer, and now, with the recent publishing of The Last Adam, a debut author. A storyteller at heart, he blends suspense and gritty realism into unforgettable narratives with modern retellings of favorite stories from the Bible. His work explores timeless questions of faith, power, and redemption through bold, cinematic storytelling. Living in Texas, where he balances work, community service, business ownership, family, and his writing that seeks to stir both hearts and spirits. 

Ron Echols

Praise

Ron Echols’s The Last Adam is a bold and genre-blending supernatural thriller that successfully balances cinematic storytelling with intimate, character-driven drama. Readers are treated to a high-stakes narrative that moves between the spiritual battlegrounds of Heaven and Earth, anchored by memorable and familiar characters like Mary Levitt, a struggling singer whose journey from rejection to divine purpose is both grounded and gripping. Echols weaves together elements of suspense, faith, and speculative fiction with remarkable confidence, making this a title that’s equally at home on a church book club shelf or among fans of The Screwtape Letters and The Matrix. With a brisk pace and skillful worldbuilding, The Last Adam keeps readers invested through moments of wonder, fear, tenderness, and hope. It’s rare to see a debut that balances accessibility with ambition this well.

– Josh, CEO of Skookum Hill Publishing

The Last Adam is a daring, emotionally charged thriller that reimagines the Nativity through a contemporary, high-stakes lens. Ron Echols masterfully blends biblical prophecy with cinematic action, weaving angels, adversaries, and human frailty into a gripping narrative that spans from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. At the heart of the story is Mary, a young, talented singer whose life spirals into divine chaos, and Joseph, a man caught between legacy, love, and a growing war he doesn’t yet understand. The characters are richly drawn, the pacing relentless, and the spiritual themes handled with both reverence and bold imagination. Think The Da Vinci Code meets This Present Darkness, but with fresher emotional stakes and a thoroughly modern pulse. Echols isn’t just telling a story, he’s constructing a world where ancient powers still pull the strings of everyday lives. A truly compelling debut.

– Hammad Khalid, MDPublishing.com

The Last Adam is a bold, genre-defying novel that reimagines the birth of Jesus in a modern, suspense-filled setting. With vivid prose and haunting imagery, it plunges readers into a contemporary America gripped by unseen spiritual warfare, where angels and demons battle over the destiny of mankind. The author masterfully blends biblical allegory with supernatural suspense, crafting a narrative that is both thought-provoking and pulse-pounding. This is not just a retelling, it’s a reimaging that invites readers to wrestle with faith, doubt, and the unseen forces that shape our world.
This novel stands out for its emotional depth, cinematic pacing, and characters who feel vividly real, especially the conflicted modern-day Joseph and Mary, whose struggles mirror the timeless tension between destiny and free will. The Last Adam is as much a spiritual thriller as it is a deeply human story, and it lingers in the mind long after the final page.

– Rachel S. Kim, author of Prophets and Shadows and contributing editor at Faith & Fiction Quarterly

Blog

November 13, 2025

Joseph in The Last Adam is the guy everyone relies on because he looks like he has it together.

You know this guy.

The one who fixes the sink, pays...

November 8, 2025

If Mary lived today, nobody would believe her.

She’d post something vague like, “Big changes coming. Feeling blessed.”

And people would reply, “...

November 6, 2025

Let’s be honest, if angels really did walk among us today, most of us wouldn’t notice.

We picture angels as glowing and majestic, but if one showed...

November 6, 2025

There was a night, around draft number six or maybe twelve, (who’s counting) when I seriously considered deleting the entire manuscript and...

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