Stand Against the Darkness One small town, six deaths—all females, all from the same small Baptist church. Not just any kind of deaths, either. The despairing kind that ends it all—on one's own terms. There is no rhyme or reason for the perfectly normal teenage girls and women ending it all—engulfing the town in frightening questions that beg for clarifying answers they aren't sure they're ready to discover. Rising to the challenge to solve this inexplicable case is Group X. The Church's investigative agents, Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, race to Mill Creek Junction to investigate this cluster of self-death that threatens to bloom into a monstrous contagion and consume a reeling community. In a case ripped from the headlines that speaks prophetically to our age, Group X must solve this unfathomable mystery menacing one small town and confront a haunting, fearsome darkness from consuming more innocent lives....

Stand Against the Darkness Monday morning, a Catholic priest is discovered dead inside a locked confessional both. The manner of death is clear. The rest...not so much. Who killed him, how did they accomplish the feat, and why did they commit such brazen, depraved sacrilege? There's only one hope to answering the murky questions surrounding this inexplicable, criminal mystery. Group X. Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, two former FBI agents, headline the newly formed investigative agency of the Order of Thaddeus, ancient defender of Christianity. Both solved bizarre cases with a paranormal edge that confounded the U.S. government—and they're back to solve the Church's unexplainable, supernatural mysteries. Questions abound the deeper they investigate, and a dark, primal power stalks them from the shadows of the Unseen Realm. They must solve this inexplicable puzzle threatening the Church to confront a rising, monstrous...