The Darkest Valley — J.A. Bouma

Stand Against the Darkness One small town, six deaths—all females, all from the same small Baptist church. Not just any kind of deaths, either. The despairing kind that ends it all—on one's own terms. There is no rhyme or reason for the perfectly normal teenage girls and woman ending it all—engulfing the town in frightening questions that beg for clarifying answers they aren't sure they're ready to discover. Rising to the challenge to solve this inexplicable case is Group X. The Church's investigative agents, Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, race to Mill Creek Junction to investigate this cluster of self-death that threatens to bloom into a monstrous contagion and consume a reeling community. In a case ripped from the headlines that speaks prophetically to our age, Group X must solve this unfathomable mystery menacing one small town and confront a haunting, fearsome darkness from consuming more innocent lives. Dark, gritty supernatural suspense at its finest, fans of Frank Peretti and Dean Koontz will devour this briskly paced, heart-pounding puzzle mystery that will leave you breathless—a haunting tale highlighting the fantastical side to life waged by the dark, powerful forces of the Unseen Realm.