Winner of the IPPY Gold Medal award for MidAtlantic Best Regional Fiction Born and raised on an isolated Appalachian mountain sixteenyearold Marli Meade yearns to break free from her fathers 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