LaDonnaMarie
What if everything you've ever believed about your family... was a lie?
Sixteen-year-old Lucy Everly has spent her entire life inside the Church of the Firstborn in the tiny farming town of Rocky, Oklahoma, where obedience is expected, questions are dangerous, and everyone knows everyone else's secrets-or so they think.
Then Lucy's childhood friend Tracy Dove disappears.
When Lucy begins asking questions no one wants answered, she finds herself caught between Greg Elliott, the boy she's loved for as long as she can remember, and Jacob Reddick, the loyal friend who would do anything to protect her. Together, they begin uncovering hidden records, altered documents, forgotten graves, and secrets that have been buried in Rocky for generations.
The closer Lucy gets to the truth, the more dangerous the questions become.
A respected sheriff seems to know more than he should. Church elders are watching her. Her father is hiding something that could change everything Lucy believes about her family, and someone is willing to kill to keep the past buried.
But the greatest mystery may not be what happened to Tracy.
It may be **who Lucy really is**.
Set against the haunting landscape of southwest Oklahoma, ***The Firstborn Prophecy*** is a Southern Gothic coming-of-age thriller about first love, faith, betrayal, family secrets, and the terrible cost of questioning everything you've been taught to believe.
Inspired by real places and the emotional realities of growing up within a small religious sect, the story blends psychological suspense, mystery, romance, and Southern Gothic darkness into a world where faith runs deep, secrets run deeper, and the truth can be more dangerous than any lie.
Some secrets are buried. Others are baptized.