Winner of the IPPY Gold Medal award for Mid-Atlantic - Best Regional
Fiction
Born and raised on an isolated Appalachian mountain, sixteen-year-old
Marli Meade yearns to break free from her father's diabolical church but
fears its clutches are so deep she may never escape.
When she meets local boy Nate Porter, though, she realizes the life she
craves is worth fighting for even with the grave risk that fight would
entail.
As her two worlds collide, exposing buried church secrets more sinister
than she imagined and unknown facts about her mother's death, Marli must
decide if she has the courage to fight for her future or if time has run
out on her chance to live.