[3] The novel follows the journey of Sally Beth Roe as she tries to escape her past and slowly overcomes her constant struggle to discern the truth.

Also told is the story of another small town, similar to that of This Present Darkness and called Bacon's Corner, and a resident named Tom Harris.

Seeming to have no connection with other events at first, a young police officer, Ben Cole, is convinced what is being brushed off as a suicide is actually a murder, and ends up losing his job over the issue, which brings him to the side of an embattled Christian school.

Caught in the crossfire is Amber, a girl who has been forced into a curriculum of "meditation techniques" and "inner spiritual guides" that control her moods, attitudes, and actions, and her mother Lucy who realizes this lawsuit and the people who are "helping" her may be much, much more than she bargained for.

Before the paths that Sally Roe and Tom Harris (and the others) are on collide, the Ashton Clarion editor and his wife, Marshall and Kate Hogan (from This Present Darkness), make a return appearance as veteran fighters in this war against the powers of darkness that threaten freedom of religion everywhere.