Gifted and Beguiled

Jordan Waters is a nationwide, hugely popular rising star of a preacher. He is filling arenas with his traveling show. Max Becker, a west coast news reporter discovers that the preacher is his boyhood best friend whom he hasn't seen in twenty-five years. His curiosity aroused, Max begins investigating and learns the man is a stunningly talented preacher as well as the head of a criminal enterprise. He soon learns this is just the tip of the iceberg. He travels across the country to find out more and his life is completely upended. He reignites a relationship with a former lover and together they learn much more than ever imagined as they are dragged into the preacher's world along with readers of this saga. Is the preacher mentally ill? Possessed? A terrorist? A murderer? The preacher's unexplained power puts Max and the rest of the world in growing danger that could culminate in the deaths of millions.