THEN: Reverend Billy Simms has healed tens of thousands during his time as a faith healer, and his reputation as "the real thing" draws thousands of the sick, the weak, and the wounded. Against his better judgment, Matthew agrees to accompany his cancer-stricken sister to the faith revivalist's assembly. A skeptic at heart with a jaundiced eye, he recognizes the reverend as a fraud, but can't help but feel hope as his sister's condition seems to improve. Two days later, though, she's dead.

NOW: As Reverend Simms stands naked, unconscious, and strapped to an appliance hand truck, Matthew has a decision to make. He has reached a fork; one road stretching toward forgiveness and the other descending into bloody revenge. From the author of DEMON comes a novelette of love, loss, and revenge.