January 28, 2012
Sometimes one day changes everything.

Such a life changing day begins for S.T. Taggert with a call from his Navajo mother asking the multimillionaire builder to find out what has happened to his sister whom he has not seen since he left home in his teens. Reading a newspaper he learns a colleague has committed suicide.

S.T.'s day just keeps getting better as a photographer for a slick magazine arrives to do a photo spread he had not agreed to do and turns out to be the beautiful and spirited Christine Johnson. Sparks fly.

Because of Christine’s assignment and S.T.’s need to discover what happened to his sister, the two are drawn south in Oregon toward a mysterious cult outside of Roseburg where the cult leader, Peter Soul, proves to be a dangerous foe. Based in Oregon, it is a character driven contemporary romance, a story of danger, an inconvenient love, and finally the dynamics of life inside some cults.

The hidden pearl is that for which it is worth living and sometimes even dying.

92,348 words.