Introduction

One group focused on destroying all religion.

One group struggling to preserve the church.

One woman searching for the truth.

For two months, small-town lawyer Bethany Barclay had been mourning the hit-and-run death of her enigmatic best friend, Annabelle Seaver. Then the son of her wealthiest client is found murdered in her kitchen. When Bethany herself becomes the leading suspect, she must flee both the authorities and a mysterious killer.

But there is more at stake than she knows.

Bethany is caught in the web of a shadowy organization determined to destroy Christianity. The final outcome rests on her ability to piece together the last three months of her best friend’s life.

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CHAPTER 1

As lawyers go, Bethany Barclay was nobody, especially in the District of Columbia and its environs, where every attorney who matters is in a big firm or in government service or shuttling between the two. Bethany had a small practice way out in Virginia, and therefore counted less than zero in legal circles. But the nightmare swept her up all the same. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1. The objective of the Wilderness is to undermine and destroy religious belief itself at any cost. Much of what they do is to create false perceptions within society. How do you think that this relates to our current culture?

2. In the story, Bethany finds herself thrown into a web of lies and manipulation. What would you have done if you found yourself framed for something you didn’t do?

3. At one point, Bethany finds a brief moment of refuge in a church. The phrase on the sign outside drawing her in, ‘Are you running forward or you just running away?’ What do you think this means?

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