The Passion Flower Massacre

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Matilda has just left home. She has finished school and is spending a year before going to university. To fund her planned trip to South America, she goes to work on a fruit farm in Devon. She''''s looking forward to an endless freedom - her childhood has been hard and sometimes sad. Her parents are very strict and cold, mainly because they lost a son when he was eight years old. Matilda was five when her brother died and she remembers that time with great pain - she suffered too, but no one ever properly let her feel sad or understood her. And after her brother''''s death, her parents never recovered. They were so desperate not to lose Matilda too that they never gave her any freedom or let her do anything interesting, and they forgot to show her that they loved her. It was a cold and sad house. So, now she is desperate to get away and have fun.
When the people who run the fruit farm offer her love and understanding, she swallows it willingly. She ignores the doubts, the warnings from other workers that these people are weird. Certainly, they seem very religious, but Matilda is taken in by their love and believes they are good people. However, this is a very, very evil religious cult, in fact.
The farm situated in the countryside, the super-nice people, and Matt, the gorgeous guy she''''s already bonded to, make it all seem too good to be true. And soon the people who run the farm, the ''''lilies'''' as Matt calls them, are pulling the helpless Matilda closer into their group, singling her out for special attention, feeding her with delicious cake and tea, seducing her with their loving concern. These people seem to understand her, she can tell them anything and she feels part of something at last. So when they want her to join them in the big house they all live in a big house on the hill, and meet their leader, Peter, she is ready and willing.
She doesn''''t realize that she is dangerously involved in a religious cult, and that she is being brainwashed and drugged in preparation for a mass suicide, planned by the pathologically leader Peter. He''''s going to burn all of them alive, because he believes it will save their souls for God.
There''''s another strand through the book: it''''s put 25 years later, in prison, where the cult leader is coming to the end of his 25 year sentence for mass murder. He is being visited by an old woman. He is clearly trying to man...