Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
The White Stone is set in the commuter suburbs of Virginia, just outside the capital: strip malls and county lines, gravel turn-offs to family houses with dogwoods in the yard, the lights on Route 7 at night. In early summer the evenings go long and green and the parking lots hold their heat past midnight. After dark the cul-de-sacs fall into the great blank quiet of commuter country, where nothing is open for miles. It is prosperous and churchgoing, three years on from a contested national day that its biggest pulpit has never once named, and more than ready to be grateful for a peace that holds.
Beacon Church is a megachurch in the Virginia suburbs of the capital: ten thousand seats, three services…
Rev. Hale's church sits across the river from Beacon, with the towers of the capital pale on the far bank…
The Brandt family home is the domestic heart of The White Stone — a suburban house near the capital where…