Salvation has a price…

Maggie Shiner is struggling. Newly relocated to Boulder, Colorado, and employed at her friend Eva's true crime podcast, she's finding it harder to adjust to this new life than she expected. She misses her Maine homestead and finds the tedium of office life grueling in comparison.

Plus, she's failing at her first assignment.

Her boss, Lars, wants her to track down a cult he believes is operating out of the San Juan region of Colorado. Except he doesn't know where they are, what they call themselves, or if they even actually exist. His only evidence is his family friend Gretchen, who went missing from her college campus almost a year ago but has made two mysterious phone calls from the small town of Silverton.

Maggie feels like she's been asked to do the impossible, until she realizes that her weakness might just be her strength in this case. Cults prey on the lost and lonely — and no one is more lost and lonely than she is. If she goes undercover, she might not only be able to locate the cult but infiltrate it and track down Gretchen.

Eva is completely opposed to Maggie's plan. It's too dangerous, she says, and Maggie is underestimating the coercive power of cults. But Maggie is eager to prove herself, and lying to Eva seems like a small price to pay, especially considering the even larger secret she's already keeping.

But as Maggie digs deeper into the case, she realizes may have put herself in the crosshairs of a very dangerous entity — and getting the story may not be as important as getting out alive.

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