Publisher's Synopsis
Welcome to The Church of Salvation, where your soul checks in but never checks out.
Raised by his drug-addicted mother in the small town of Coraki, Australia, Monroe Morgan is determined to escape a life steeped in misery. With dreams of a better future, he has secured a job at his brother-in-law's pub in Coffs Harbour and is set to start as soon as he turns eighteen.
However, a month before his departure, Monroe's life takes a drastic turn when his neighbour, Indi, appears at his doorstep, battered and scared for her life. She reveals harrowing details about her upbringing in The Church of Salvation and declares that she is being forced to marry the church's pastor against her will.
Concerned for Indi's safety, Monroe plans to take her with him when he leaves. But on the morning of their escape, he is jolted awake by blood-curdling screams coming from next door.
A violent confrontation with Indi's father ensues, resulting in Monroe's arrest and a year-long stay in Rozelle Hospital for drug-induced psychosis.
In a cruel twist of fate, Indi's father denies her existence, and the doctors and authorities dismiss her as a figment of Monroe's imagination.
After a year of treatment and recovery, Monroe returns to Coraki determined to find Indi and prove she is real. However, the visit to his old neighbourhood soon unearths a web of dark secrets, and he finds himself at the centre of a decades-old cult conspiracy. He'll have to summon all his strength to discover not only where Indi went, but who he truly is, before more young women mysteriously wind-up dead.
