Describes the life of Jim Jones and the church he established, supposedly to help people find a better life, and recounts the events that led to the deaths of Jones and his followers at their compound in Guyana in 1978.
Examines the origins, beliefs, and practices of modern religious movements which are outside the mainstream denominations of the major world religions.
Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents.
Trick McGuire, working undercover in an effort to help his girlfriend locate her young nephew who has joined a cult called the Knights of the Once and Forever King, is recruited by a Traveler from the past whose purpose is also focused on the Knights and their evil leader.
Failed rock musician Kenji reunites with some of his old buddies in the hopes of learning why another old friend mysteriously committed suicide, and, in the process of their investigation, the group uncovers links to a disturbing cult that has been implicated in a series of murders and disappearances.
Larkin, abducted from her parents as a child and raised by members of the Church of Christian America, comes to suspect that Lauren Olamina, leader of the cult Earthseed, is her biological mother.
New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter travels to Wisconsin at the request of his former girlfriend Laurie Collins, who is acting police chief in the small town of Findlay, to help investigate the murders to two teens, and the possible involvement of a local religious cult.
