Carol Owens

Sussex Cove Carol Owens

From the trauma of a childhood blunder comes a lifetime of secrets and lies that Sam Cannady must uncover?or die trying. In posh Sussex Cove, Massachusetts, eleven year old Sam is accused of molesting little Joanna Stanfield, the ward of his father?s powerful employer. The fallout is catastrophic: his father?s career is damaged and his family uprooted. His father never forgives Sam, nor lets him forget. Thirty years later, Sam is a celebrated California pastor whose famous feel-good doctrine isn?t working: his wife has died, his faith is in crisis, and when his father is killed, everything points to murder?and to the past. Sam?s desperate search for the truth becomes a journey he soon wishes he had never begun as the tentacles of his childhood trauma reach out and suck him into a vortex of violence, political intrigue, and occult spiritual reality that he never dreamed existed. Armed with reality-shifting revelation from God, the strength of an old friend, and a heart-melting new love, Sam is soon enmeshed in the ancient power struggle between the two spiritual kingdoms that still war for our world.