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Amanda G. StevensChristianity · Fiction
Found and lost
Violet DuBay is a high school student facing her senior year when her best friend Khloe confides that Khloe's father is practicing an illegal religion. Violet believes the law requires her to report him to the Constabulary. Reporting him would also send Khloe to re-education, and it would cost Violet the family she has leaned on, since she spends more hours in Khloe's home than in her own.
Clay Hansen, Khloe's father, persuades his family to come with him to an underground church meeting. He also brings Violet along. The church is raided that night. Clay and his wife get away, but in the chaos he loses both Violet and Khloe, and the Constabulary is watching everything he does.
After the raid she set in motion, Violet gets a chance to infiltrate the Christian resistance. Inside it she meets Marcus, Lee and others, and each of them holds a view of faith and the regime that she did not expect. Her assignment grows harder to carry out the longer she stays.
Clay's search for the two girls becomes more desperate with each passing day. He once believed God had spared Khloe. Now he is ready to do the rescuing himself if no help comes.
The book is a dystopian novel about faith under a repressive state, told from two points of view: a teenage informer turned infiltrator and a father hunting for his daughter.