Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide-- and her own past. Like Virginia, private investigator Cabot Sutter was one of the children...

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. They build close connections between you and your comrades--and the more secretive those are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult. Sex Trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced Labour. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Vice investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run...

In a story of liberation and self-empowerment, the author shares her hauntingly intimate coming-of-age narrative of growing up in and escaping from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult.