"Spring flowers may be about to bloom in Crozet, Virginia, but Harry is thinking about snow. Her dear friend Ned Tucker is in the House of Delegates, advocating for a bill to improve road clearing during bad weather, and Harry and Ned's wife, Susan, have gone down to the statehouse to support him. Tensions are high between political parties, and no one can agree on anything for long enough to get something done. The bill's chief detractor is the glamorous...

"David Centrelli is a junior business development executive at a pharmaceutical company in Richmond with no military training or criminal record whatsoever... but an innocent knock on the door one typical Monday morning changes his life forever. Thrust into a world of unbelievable accusations, outrageous claims and danger he's only seen in the movies, he's told that his best friend's death two weeks earlier was no accident, and that his buddy has...

When journalist Ivy Morelli sets out to investigate the mysterious leader of the nearby homeschool, known as "The Prophet," she is drawn into the life of his self-sufficient countercultural community called the Settlement.