Earl Marcus thought he had forever left behind the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ’s church. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl’s home. The photograph is dated long after his father’s burial, and there’s no doubt that the man in the picture is very much alive. As Earl returns to Church of the Holy Flame searching for the truth, faithful followers insist that his father has risen to a holy place high in the mountains. Nobody will talk about the teenage girls who go missing, only to return with strange tattoo-like marks on their skin. Earl doesn’t know what to believe, but he has long been haunted by his father, forever lurking in the shadows of his life.