Only a few residents remain in the fictional dying former coal mining town of Willow Branch Creek, Kentucky. Deacon Jedidiah Malone is one of those remaining residents. Deacon Jedidiah is a harsh man who insists on getting his way. This not so good deacon has a few skeletons of his own in his closet. This is a sometimes dark tale of evil in a small town where young preachers come to preach, but often disappear. Like every dark cloud, this book too has its silver lining. Come and spend some time in the hills of eastern Kentucky and at the end of your journey you too might experience the joy that one reader described. To paraphrase his sentiments, "By the end I felt like doing cartwheels, a couple of them. This was an insanely good book."
