Vow of Thorns

She ran from God. She fell into something worse.

Mercy Hollister has never seen the outside world. Raised inside The Fold-a remote, iron-fisted religious compound in the Pacific Northwest-she has spent twenty-two years learning one lesson: obey, or suffer. When she is promised in marriage to a man who has already buried two wives, she does the only thing left. She runs.

Barefoot. Bleeding. Straight into the arms of Jude.

He is calm where the elders were cruel. Gentle where they were brutal. He...