When nine-year-old Victoria Hanson escaped a murderous cult, she hoped the nightmare was over. Adopted by a childless couple and given a new identity, Vicky buried the loss of her parents and brother.
Now a social worker, alarm bells ring surrounding pleas for advice over a wayward eighteen-year-old. Meanwhile, a mysterious robed figure desecrates ancient sacred sites.
Partnering a former homeless man turned private investigator, Vicky searches for answers. Powerful, prosperous and connected, the reinvigorated cult's influence sees the pair turn fugitive from the law. A desperate race ensues. Can Vicky and her unlikely companion unmask this secret society and clear their own names, before the final atrocity unfolds?
Devon De’Ath was born in the county of Kent, ‘The Garden of England.’ Raised a Roman Catholic in a small, ancient country market community famously documented as ‘the most haunted TOWN in England,’ he grew up in an atmosphere replete with spiritual, psychic, and supernatural energy. Hauntings were commonplace and you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting three spectres, to the extent that he never needed question the validity of such manifestations. As to the explanations behind them?
At the age of twenty, his earnest search for spiritual truth led the young man to leave Catholicism and become heavily involved in Charismatic Evangelicalism. After serving as a part-time youth pastor while working in the corporate world, he eventually took voluntary redundancy to study at a Bible College in the USA. Missions in the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa followed, but a growing dissatisfaction with aspects of the theology and ministerial abuse by church leadership eventually caused him to break with organised religion and pursue a Post-Evangelical existence. One open to all manner of spiritual and human experiences his ‘holy’ life would never have allowed.
After church life, De’Ath served fifteen years with the police, lectured at colleges and universities, and acted as a consultant to public safety agencies both foreign and domestic.
A writer since he first learned the alphabet, Devon De’Ath has authored works in many genres under various names, from Children’s literature to self-help books, through screenplays for video production and all manner of articles.
First time reading a book written by this author, didn't disappoint me plenty of action, kept me wanting to finish it.Ending surprised me. Plenty of action and fast pace.