He's a healer, a husband, a father and a friend to some rich and famous people. Beau Dupere possesses the most profound healing gift in modern times, and lives in a huge Malibu mansion overlooking the Pacific. A pastor, father and ascending voice among conservative Evangelicals, Dixon Claiborne has something to say about Beau Dupere, and he wants the whole world to hear. He doesn't want them to know, however, what happens to his daughter in the days that follow his big announcement. Anna Conyers is there to document yet another fight among religious people when Dixon lines up his accusations against Beau Dupere. Her regional newspaper gathers the windfall of a national story when Anna gets inside the Malibu mansion and learns who Beau Dupere really is, just as his opponents resort to violence. Even as Christian institutions lose more credibility in the public eye, lost and needy people find joy and life in the one who lent those institutions his name . . . if not his heart.