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Anne Waverly is a respected university professor whose academic focus on alternative religious movements secretly fuels her work as an FBI operative. Years after an unwitting act cost her a husband and daughter, she has infiltrated suspect communities four times, seeking atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life again, she declines further assignments—until she learns of more than a hundred children living in the Arizona compound of the Change movement. Anne realises that this community is not ordinary, and the mission that once seemed her final one pulls her back into the clutches of the demons she has tried to escape, pushing her to the razor's edge of danger.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Laurie R. King
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