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‘Father Turner was staring at him again, Evan noticed he did that, locked eyes and didn’t relent as if he was determined to work out what made him tick by look alone. It should be unnerving but the fire it lit in Evan’s belly matched up pretty nice with all the other ways this preacher made him hot. He watched the man take a long pull, throat bobbing tight and a single trail of amber liquid running from the corner of his mouth. He put the flask down and caught the bead with his thumb, dragging it up to suck the whiskey from the pad. Evan’s eyes caught all of it, transfixed, and he had to think fast when the preacher caught him staring.

“So I take it you don’t have too much against the sin of liquor?” His voice sounded strained even to his own ears.

“Sinning makes us human Evan, everything in moderation.”

“I’d be mighty curious to see what other kinds of sinning you got up to then, Reverend.”’

Sheriff Evan Parker has been sent to Boston to collect the new preacher for his town of Lawrence. What he finds is a man nothing like what he expected and suddenly the long journey back to Kansas seems a lot more dangerous than he’d previously thought.