You knew me but I didn’t know you.To me you were a stranger.A random person in the crowd.No one.If I could go back, if I knew what I know now, I would have run.But I can’t go back.And I didn’t know better.Not then.I didn’t know you would ruin me.Ruin me with lies.With lust.With longing.Just look at me now in this world without you.I have nothing.This is not a love story.

In therapy, they tell you to use your senses.List the things you know: Sermons recited with malice. A blood-soaked ritual. The sting of tears and gasping sobs of the dying. Rotting flesh.I grew up in a cage, tortured by the Lord Almighty's most twisted servant. Death and despair became my close companions as I watched years of slaughter at Pastor Michaels' hand.Eighteen girls. Dead.Eighteen lives. Ended.Eighteen futures. Stolen....

All I ever wanted was the chance to live.From the moment I left my cage, I've fought for every single breath. But my new life came at a cost.The rapture approaches. Hysteria is taking over the country.Michael Abaddon stole everything from me. My freedom. My sanity. My soul. As his reign of terror escalates, the time has come to take my life back.He wants to burn us all. But I'll be the one to set the world on fire.Our family is pushe...

It's time to pray. Repeat after me. Lord Almighty, have mercy on me. Free me from my sins.Freedom. That's the first lie I swallowed.Haunted by ghosts and the secrets they carry, I'm being eaten alive by guilt. Pastor Michaels' reign of terror will continue until I surrender myself to him.We're fighting an invisible enemy that speaks the language of violence. Allies have become enemies, and new faces are threatening to derail my life. Someon...