The Ultimate Deception

by Nancy Gooding

A tragedy coupled with financial devastation forces Becky Spencer to accept a job in a town hundreds of miles away from everything familiar. Hoping to make friends and establish herself in the new town, Becky attends a local church. To her confusion, she finds the church a dichotomy. On the one hand, it appears to have everything she could desire and yet there is an untenable mystery that prods her to question why everyone is so secretive and frightened. Seeking truth, she finds that seeds of humiliation and anger carelessly planted years before have reached maturity and now the fruit of these actions is threatening to destroy the faith of an entire community. Strewn across the county are the lives of the disillusioned, but when it seems all is lost, the truth is revealed in an unusual twist and the mystery is solved.

While weaving parts of her own life into a tale of intrigue and suspense, author Nancy Gooding has incorporated fictional characters who are composites of the many people who have shared their stories with the writer.

335 pages, Paperback

Published November 2, 2023