Vespers
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Last published Mon, Jun 20, 2022
A young cult member realizes the danger her organization poses, and must choose between love and community.
Imani has been a student at Vespers International for almost a year, sequestered away on a private property near Florida's eastern coast. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of wilderness and cut off from the rest of the world, Imani learns to conform to the strict religious culture and accept the teachings of the cult she belongs to.
But when her love for another student chips away at the foundations of her faith, Imani begins to pull at the threads of the Vespers' way of life - and discovers the organization's terrible true purpose.
As she fights to see past the lies she's been told and the constructed world of Vespers International falls away, Imani must find a way to escape the insidious group and save as many of her fellow students as possible.
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