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“Journalist Paige Keller, while recovering at a remote resort from an overseas assignment, is drawn into a community dominated by a fundamentalist church, a family of real estate developers, and a group of environmentalists, all in conflict over control of the valley’s future. She goes undercover to discover what lies beneath the church’s rituals and sacred ceremonies, but the more she learns, the deeper the valley’s mysteries and seductions become.”

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Journalist Paige Keller returns to Aurum Valley and begins uncovering the secrets of the valley’s history, to the displeasure of those who want to keep those secrets hidden. She discovers the story of Aurelia’s founder, an ambitious young man who came to the valley alone to make his fortune and home there. She learns of a fearless native girl who left her tribe to follow a stranger to a new life, and of a disillusioned immigrant who fled his faith, finding his way to the valley to establish a new religion there, despite his broken moral compass.

In the present, a talented young actress is lured into the lair of a predacious Hollywood producer; a local minister is drawn into a secretive organization with influence deep in the halls of power; a weary environmentalist is inspired by an impassioned teenager; a jaded professor is challenged by a precocious new student; an aging sculptress tries to complete her magnum opus while she still can, and the heir of valley’s founding family begins building where neither the Church nor the environmentalists want anyone to build—on a hill they all hold sacred.

The Fruit of the Tree is Part III of the acclaimed IDOLATRY saga, the story of a wealthy young heir and a devout Christian girl who find themselves at the heart of the struggle for the soul of Western Civilization.

Cover art by Bryan Larsen available at Quent Cordair Fine Art

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