Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Lee Seo-jin is Seo-yeon's younger sister, six years her junior, and the person the finest heresy-tester in the country could not bring home. At twenty-three, looking for somewhere that would tell her she was loved and chosen, she was drawn into a sect. Seo-yeon read its material, learned its methods and won every argument across their mother's kitchen table, and lost her sister anyway. Seo-jin left the group years ago. She has not come back to the family, and Seo-yeon, who finds missing people for a living, has never once picked up the phone.

Deacon Baek Ji-hoon is Seo-yeon's colleague at the counselling centre: somewhere in his fifties, soft-spoken…

Kang Ha-eun is Seo-yeon and Min-ho's daughter: twenty, halfway through a university degree, and the warmest…

Kang Min-ho is Seo-yeon's husband of twenty years: a corporate middle manager by day and, at Saebit Central…

Lee Seo-yeon is the heart of The Lampstand: a forty-seven-year-old senior researcher at a church-funded…

Rev. Oh Kyung-tae is the senior pastor of Saebit Central, a brilliant expositor in his sixties and the…

Yun Soon-ok is Min-ho's mother: ninety, small, neat and still upright, and the grandmother of the family…