The Firstborn Prophecy: Book One

Every family in Rocky, Oklahoma keeps the same secret. Lucy Everly just didn't know it was about her.

The summer she turns sixteen, a girl named Tracy Dove disappears from their small congregation — and no one in the Church of the Firstborn will say her name again. Not the sheriff. Not the elders. Not even Lucy's own parents, who taught her that obedience and holiness were the same thing.

So Lucy starts a notebook. She writes down what she sees, what people say, and what quietly changes after everyone stops paying attention. With her best friend Jacob, she starts finding the records the Church tried to bury — until the questions cost more than either of them ever expected.

Her father finally tells her the truth: "There are two kinds of people in Rocky — the ones who don't know, and the ones who've agreed." He has been the second kind since before Lucy was born.

What Lucy uncovers next reaches further back than one missing girl. Two birth certificates. A grave behind the church cemetery with her name on the marker. A matchbook hidden in her father's things with four words scratched beneath the ink: ASK WHICH LUCY SURVIVED.

Some prophecies are promises. This one was a sentence — and Lucy is about to find out which version of her life the Church decided to keep.

THE FIRSTBORN PROPHECY is Book One in a haunting new series about faith, silence, and the cost of a small town's obedience — for readers of Educated, The Girls, and Sharp Objects.