A long-buried shame returns to cast its deadly shadow on killer James Carson who is free at last from prison, free to destroy the man whose lust gave him life and whose ambition made that life hell; spellbinder Austin Holloway, America's star TV preacher, has erected an empire on the treacherous sands of hypocrisy and guilt, now they suddenly shift under him; and his daughter beautiful Denise Holloway who becomes hostage to the twisted rage of the brother she never knew existed.