<p><strong>He preached salvation. He practiced something else.</strong><br>Lucien Pryce was once the charismatic leader of a spiritual movement. Now he's a man of myth and menace-vanished without a trace leaving behind only whispers and the wreckage of broken lives. But some truths don't stay buried. They resurface... wearing a mask of divinity.</p><p>When FBI forensic profiler Ayana Brice is assigned to a string of ritualistic deaths in New York all signs point to a phantom from her past. As she navigates a maze of secret confessions encrypted gospel and haunting memories she uncovers a truth more terrifying than murder: this isn't just a manhunt-it's a reckoning.</p><p><strong>In a city where faith is currency and trust is a loaded gun Ayana must confront the most sacred lie of all-</strong><br><em>the one she once believed in.</em></p>