Shadows of Gilead

By Robert Crompton

Did young Vic Scanlon really see a girl held prisoner in a church elder's home? Or was he just imagining things? Should he tell? Or should he keep quiet as all the adults insisted?

Shadows of Gilead tells the stories of three very different defectors from the same congregation of the Fellowship of Gilead who all want to discover the truth as what was going on when they were kids.

Was the girl in the elder's junk room real? What became of her after Vic had tried to spill the beans? Can she be found all these years later? And what will happen if she is found?

Shadows of Gilead is a work of fiction, but it depicts the kind of dark goings on and cover-ups all too often hidden behind the doors of some authoritarian religions masquerading as beacons of righteousness.