Review:

Committed Christian, Kara Addison, yearns to connect with the daughter she gave up at birth. Her husband, Marsh Addison, fears any relationship that threatens the wall he's built around his emotions. Twenty-three-year-old Josee Walker returns to the Oregon coast with a chip on her shoulder the size of Mount Everest. She used to believe in Jesus, but life has knocked the faith out of her. Now she wants to meet her birth parents so she can put the past behind her. The impending reunion stirs up a half-century old evil with a forked-tongue objective: destroy the Addisons and gain control of a terrorists dream-weapon. Unexpected enemies and surprising allies sweep across the chessboard in well-matched move and countermove. Wounded and fallible human beings lean on strength beyond themselves in order to confront poisonous secrets of generations past. Wilson has a gift for the eerie and bizarre in the midst of outwardly ordinary surroundings. Prepare to shiver and gasp, but pay close attention to the words on the page. The complexity of the plot and strangeness of the details sometimes makes the action difficult to follow. (448 pp., $12.99)
— Jill Nelson