Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Jenna Cole met Erin at nineteen, two scholarship girls in a dorm full of rich kids, and the friendship set hard in the first month and never came loose. Jenna later walked away from the faith the two of them had shared; Erin stayed, and they stayed friends anyway. She is brisk and funny, a woman who orders for the table in one breath, and she sees the politics around Beacon with a clarity that can be merciless. She is also the one person on earth who loved Erin before she was useful, which is why it lands so hard when she leans across a restaurant table and says what she thinks of Erin's church.

Diane Brandt is Russell's wife and the keeper of the Brandt table: the Sunday candle, the pot roast and her…

Erin Brandt is twenty-nine and the broadcast and media director at Beacon Church, a megachurch in the…

Frank Buckley is Rev. Hale's deacon, an old veteran in a good worn jacket who stacks the folding chairs after…

Micah Brandt is Erin's older brother: thirty-three, built like the linebacker he almost was, a head and a…

Preston Wells is a movement strategist working inside Beacon: in his forties, a good plain suit, a face you'd…

Rev. Marcus Hale pastors a small, poor church across the river from Beacon, and Erin is sent over with a…