Following the tragic death of their mother in a car accident, twins Dan and Rebecca Jordan are about to learn of a disturbing secret hidden from them since birth. They discover that their birth father is notorious murderer and cult leader James Warwick - a vile beast of a man awaiting execution on death row since his capture in 1983. When the twins plan to visit their birth father hoping to piece together how he and their mothers' lives came to be entwined, Warwick sees an opportunity to use this new found relationship to his advantage.
The only person who suspects this and knows Warwick better than anyone is the man who put him away - now retired detective Alexander Robbins.
Told in three distinct interweaving timelines, we visit 1973 as the fledgling Warwick along with ever-present right-hand Gloria build the cult from nothing into a potent and dangerous faction.
We also see the events in the late 1980's leading to the arrest and conviction of Warwick, as well as the reasons behind the hatred Warwick and Robbins feel towards each other. As the manipulative Warwick digs his claws into the twins, Robbins unofficially comes out of retirement to intervene and do all he can to protect them, unaware that the cult is far from destroyed, and their leader has a plan to escape, take his children, and rebuild what was once taken from him.
