Christian fiction

The Girl behind the Red Rope

by Ted Dekker and Rachelle Dekker

336 pages · First published 2019

Grace has spent ten years inside a secluded Tennessee religious community whose members believe a deadly evil waits beyond a red perimeter they must never cross. Rules, fear, and obedience define safety until her brother’s questions and the arrival of outsiders destabilize everything she has been taught. Grace must decide whether the greatest threat is outside the boundary or embedded in the beliefs that keep everyone behind it. Ted Dekker and Rachelle Dekker combine psychological suspense, spiritual allegory, and religious extremism in a thriller about fear’s ability to masquerade as protection.