Gerrit Verstraete

Shadow Ridge Gerrit Verstraete

Suspense, drama, murder mystery: Isabel, her friend Polly, and her mother Esther, are the victims of illegal cult practices in a polygamist community in the mountains of British Columbia. Abuse is tolerated as a woman's duty in spiritual marriages or as child sexual toys for men in an otherwise innocent looking place called Shadow Ridge. Everything and everyone are exposed by ghostwriter Noah King, who gives a voice to those who are seldom heard: the innocent. Redemption brings healing, but is judgment of the law too lenient for the perpetrators?