True Believers

After years of heartbreaking disappointments, Gwen Sullivan is finally pregnant, thanks to a special procedure performed at a confidential Dallas clinic. But the small life that grows within her may not be created by her husband. Instead, it is the spawn of an imprisoned psychopath responsible for an unspeakable slaughter-a twisted cult leader whose powers extend far beyond his prison cell, a dark messiah whose acolytes are everywhere.

Now Gwen and Will Sullivan have become the pawns in a conspiracy of staggering proportions-as their lives are manipulated, methodically and with frightening craft, by a condemned madman who plans for his final act on Earth to be the total enslavement and destruction of a great American family. In an atmosphere where every dirty little secret becomes fodder for a hungry media and potent ammunition for ideological enemies, there is one secret the Sullivans must never reveal-even as it eats away at their faltering marriage and their sanity alike, and threatens to obliterate everything they hold dear, up to and including life itself.

In and beyond the glare of TV camera lights and the screaming tabloid headlines, one influential family's desperate battle for survival has begun-a war of moves, countermoves, dark truths, deadly lies, coercion, treachery and terror that will spread from Death Row to the highest residence in the land.