Purity: what if everything you thought you knew was wrong?

Jeff Davis didn't sign up to be a hero. He is an unassuming middle-aged insurance adjuster who just wants to pay his bills and be left alone. That simple pursuit ends when he is called upon to investigate an automobile accident that claimed the life of a young girl who is apparently the fifth victim in a series of Arkansas kidnappings. Finding himself drawn into the criminal investigation due to inept or corrupt law enforcement, he stumbles onto a literally "out of this world" religious cult that forces him to question his own beliefs - or, more accurately, his absence of beliefs - while risking his livelihood, and his life, to rescue four children he has never even met. But, is he rescuing them, or is he condemning them?

Rick Baber, insurance adjuster, photographer, and ex-private investigator, has been writing stories since the age of twelve. "Purity" - his first venture into the mystery genre - is his third book, following "Dinner with WT" (a humor anthology) and "To Gain the Motherland" (an epic sci-fi tale), along with hundreds of newspaper columns. He lives in Springdale, Arkansas, with his wife, Becky.