Ashworth's Reckoning

When federal inmate Elias Vickers loses his habeas petition challenging the jurisdiction of the prison that holds him, he is forced to confront a deeper truth: he never belonged there. Years earlier, as a young agent, he infiltrated the Covenant of the Final Dawn—a rural cult whose charismatic leader, Silas Merrick, preached a "great cleansing" through mass suicide. Now, with the prison's denial finalizing his identity as a convicted criminal rather than a hero, Vickers must decide whether to bury his past or resurrect the one night he tried to save eighty souls. In a world where lies kept him alive, the truth about that night may cost him his last shred of freedom.