What happens to a religious order and a marriage, when the darkest, most menacing secrets of the past find their way into the present? What if the only hope a man's invalid wife has to be whole again is in the hands of a nationally prominent and charismatic faith healer his wife believes to be genuine and he knows is a fake because she also happens to have been his high school sweetheart? What happens if the two of them re-enter each other's lives because of his wife, and dangerous revelations that could destroy all three of them come to light? Set in the alluring high country of central Colorado, then shifting to the verdant and mysterious backwoods of east Tennessee, Holy Fire follows Mack Skinner, a man plagued by the ghosts of two girls whose lives he irrevocably altered, and the bizarre, twisted underworld of faith healers and their legion of trusting and undeterred believers. It begins with a rifle shot across the lake . . .