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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Shepherd
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Jasper Charlaine Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35159407
EAN: 9798235769748
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Zustellung: Mo, 24.08.2026
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Beschreibung
Father Eldon Marsh knows what evil looks like when it's trying to hide. He sealed something beneath a ridge in Watauga County, North Carolina thirty-eight years ago and drove away before sunrise. The county records showed an empty lot. The seal held. He didn't go back. Until now. The lot isn't empty anymore. There's a church on the ridge. White clapboard, standing-seam roof, new gravel, nursery shrubs still in their spacing. The parking runs all the way down to the first switchback on Sundays. The community hasn't seen growth like this in a generation. And at the center of it, a pastor named Thomas Vance. Tall. Composed. The kind of man who goes to the widow who can't stand up rather than waiting for her to come to him. The kind of man who remembers your name, your children's names, your fears, and the thing you did that you haven't told your wife. The congregation trusts him completely. Marsh watches him from the tree line and feels a cold he can't attribute to the weather. Thomas Vance isn't possessed. He isn't a ghost. He's something the mountain built from scratch, assembling it in the dark from root and clay and white oak fiber and the unrepentant confession of a preacher who stood before the Confession Tree in 1834 and never once meant a word of what he said. He's been walking the ridge for months. He knows every family on the mountain. He knows what they owe and who they're afraid of and where they've been putting their faith. He's not here to shepherd them. He's here to own them. Marsh is old. His heart has already filed one complaint about the altitude. He doesn't have a weapon that works on something that was never alive. What he has is forty years of learning the difference between a confession and a lie, and the knowledge that evil this patient is counting on nobody being able to tell the difference. The Shepherd. is the latest entry in the Darkwood Legacy's Lost Confessions series. A story about counterfeit grace, ancient evil wearing a kind face, and the one man in Watauga County who knows exactly what's standing behind that pulpit. The oldest lies wear the kindest faces.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- R. D. Parrish
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 78