The Prodigal Daughter

What if they don’t want you to come home again?


Carrie Ames left her restrictive religious community for a new life. Her family

shuns her; old friends don’t speak to her. But she forges a new identity, surrounds

herself with a support group of other ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses, and finally even

learns how to love. When she’s killed the night that she announces she’s returning

to the church, her boyfriend, Todd Parrish, is arrested for murder. Was she

murdered because Todd feared losing her, or is there a deeper motive?


Lacey Benedict has struggled to establish herself and her small firm in Dallas,

where the legal community closed ranks against her for bringing down an

established law firm and its popular managing partner. Todd’s grandparents

plead for help and—even though she knows practically nothing about criminal

law—she can never resist a good fight against injustice. But how do you find other

suspects when everyone adores the victim and assumes the killer has already been

caught? Benedict digs into Carrie’s life, and, before she knows it, she’s got too

many suspects—and not enough time.