Found and lost

Violet DuBay learns from her closest friend, Khloe, that Khloe's father has been practicing a banned faith. Violet feels bound to report him to the Constabulary. Khloe, however, would be pulled into re-education along with the rest of the household, and she has no intention of giving up her final year of high school. Violet has no blood tie to the family, yet she spends more of her time under their roof than under her own. Doing the right thing would cost her the only family she has come to rely on.

Clay Hansen takes his relatives to a secret gathering of believers and brings along Violet, his daughter's best friend. Authorities raid the meeting that same night. Clay and his wife get away, but in the confusion he is separated from Violet and Khloe. With the Constabulary tracking his every move, he has to figure out how to find them.

The raid is the result of a plan Violet herself set in motion. In its aftermath, she stumbles onto a chance to work her way into an underground movement of Christians pushing back against the authorities. The assignment grows more tangled as she gets to know Marcus, Lee, and others, each of whom sees the situation in a way she never anticipated.

Meanwhile, Clay's search for his daughter and Violet becomes more urgent with each passing day. He had once thanked God for keeping Khloe safe. Now he decides that if God is not going to act, he will rescue her himself.