The Sound of Your Voice — Shelley Adina

From RITA Award® winning author Adina Senft comes a series of domestic suspense novels flavored with faith. In the small town of Smoke River, Washington, everyone knows the Elect of God. They're good religious people, honest, hardworking -- and they're hiding some dreadful secrets. Who do you listen to when every word might be a lie? Brought up in a strict religion in the small town of Smoke River, Washington, Chloe Montoya has seen the leaders she trusted disgraced and watched helplessly as her best friends rejected their faith. When radio evangelist Luke Fisher is invited to headquarter his ministry in town, Chloe is drawn to him. Against her church's will, she joins the staff at the station as bookkeeper and, while she's totally behind Luke's vision for the community, she begins to realize that under the message is a sound that frightens her … Fresh out of the state police academy and assigned to the Organized Crime Task Force, Ray Harper is sent to Smoke River to investigate an underground church that seems to attract the criminal and the predatory. What he finds is a town prospering in its religious fervor -- and a dark-haired, dark-eyed innocent who he'd bet his first year's salary has never been kissed. Ray has no use for religion. She's forbidden even to speak to him. But Luke Fisher's growing power threatens what they both love -- and sometimes you have to listen to someone … and hope that they hear you … “A brave and talented author who looks at the darkness as well as the light.” -- Mary Jo Putney