This was a good book. I really love the world building and the characters. The pacing was really good and it was an interesting story to read

As children Nate Freeman and his brother Will were part of a cult called the Children of Hamor, but they were rescued and then taken from the U.S. to the UK and adopted out, separately. Now former detective Nate doesn’t know where any of the children taken from the cult are until they begin turning up dead, minus a symbol branded into their backs.

Nate’s old boss asks for his help in locating this serial killer targeting the former cult members, but obviously he’s at risk too.

Reading this was painful and a bit of a slog as it is not well written. Awkward sentence structure. Clauses that don’t make sense. At one point author has the villain thinking that he’s immoral. What? That sort of thing.

I read this because I’m a big fan of books about cults, but this really doesn’t dive deeply into the life of the cult (which is fair, I guess, since Nate was a child,) plus I thought the killer was pretty obvious from the beginning of the book. So this one didn’t do it for me.