Seventh Dimension – The King: Book Trailer

Last updated on July 5, 2025

-Winner of the 2014 Literary Classics Book Awards for faith-based YA fiction

-Finalist in the 2014 USA Book Awards for religious fiction

-Winner in the 9th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for spirituality

-Finalist in the visionary category for the 2015 International Book Awards

-Silver winner in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards for YA

-Finalist (fifth) in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award for YA fiction

After a series of devastating events, a gifted seventeen-year-old Israeli boy becomes the focus of a wager between good and evil. Marked by one, he travels to first-century Israel and meets a doctor who becomes his mentor. When he unwittingly makes a pact with the devil, and the girl he loves is betrothed to another, his life takes a different course – until his eyes are opened. Trapped in the seventh dimension, how far will God go to save him?

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Here’s a Short Excerpt

The evening turned into night. What secrets hid among the stars? The wings of light covered the blackness, creating unbelievable beauty. I sighed. How could I admire God’s handiwork and still refuse to worship him?

I relented. “I know you are the God of Isaac, Jacob, and Abraham, but when will you be mindful of me?” Clouds covered the moon, creating make-believe shadows.

Did God make deals with man? I didn’t know. I wanted to believe he still cared.

Amazon Review by R. Presson

First of all, as a nonfiction author, I am in awe and envious of fiction writers, particularly novelists. As a nonfiction writer, I can build upon the well-established platform of a subject constructed by many writers before me. What amazes me about novelists is their ability to create characters, plots, settings, and dialogue out of thin air. Everything only exists in the novelist’s imagination before appearing as a plausible story on paper.

Secondly, in reviewing this book in the young adult fantasy genre, I should quickly point out that I am not a young adult. However, I often fantasize about being a young adult again, but I suspect that is not what the term young adult fantasy means.

In all seriousness, I’m still young at heart, and I enjoyed Lorilyn Roberts’ exceptional book. My enjoyment of the book also means that one does not have to be a teenager to enjoy it. I’ll add to all that my opinion that this is a book that parents and young people could both read and enjoy discussing.

Here is the challenge that I believe Roberts meets head-on and is successful at: how to write historical fiction for young people that is solid in its historical grounding and imaginative storytelling. Historical fiction for young people can take some poetic liberty with details and facts and welcome fantasy, science fiction, romance, and magic. This can be especially true with Biblical history, in which the narrative can be more of a summary than an elaboration.

In Seventh Dimension – The King, Roberts enables Daniel, a modern Israeli teenager, to time travel to 1st-century Israel and experience adventures, danger, romance, and insight. Some big questions get answered along the way, and a mystery is solved. But I believe good Christian fiction (and non-fiction) doesn’t try to answer all the questions the protagonist has, but leaves some necessary room for the character(s) to wrestle with the answers to the bigger questions, which invites the reader to engage the big questions.

Daniel must determine for himself what is real and how to convince others. It seems to me that this is a lifelong task for teens and adults of any age—to determine what is real and then strive to share the discovery. Roberts artfully gives her character, Daniel, a wonderful setting, a great supporting cast, and a grand journey to work out that personal mission.