Following a traffic accident in the mountains, Bobby Barnes sinks into blackness. Yet it is not death that greets him beyond the veil. Instead, he returns to the day he has just lived and finds he is not alone in this strange new world'
With the 'profound sense of Southern spirituality' he is known for (Publishers Weekly), Billy Coffey draws us into a town where good and evil'and myth and reality'intertwine in unexpected ways.
For the three people tortured by their secret complicity in a young man's untimely death, redemption is what they most long for ... and the last thing they expect to receive.
Following a brutal attack leaves him burned and a boy dead, a man discovers the defining truth of his life, new hope in the community he loves, and greater trust in the God who sustains him.
In this debut novel, Peter is a simple man who lives by a simple truth--a person gains strength by leaning on his constants. To him, those constants are the factory where he works, the family he loves, and t...