Sunshine Revival

A Vigilante Thriller

De: Jackie Mercer

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Some shepherds feed on the flock. Along the I-75 corridor, a silver-haired preacher runs the revival circuit, bringing salvation to the desperate and the lost. Brother Mitchell Cross leads prayer circles at truck stops, baptizes sinners in remote rivers, offers "private counsel" to troubled young women seeking redemption. Some of those women come back different. Some don't come back at all. The lot lizards who work the highway know what he is. They've been warning each other for years: stay away from the man in the white van with the painted cross. But their whispers never reach anyone who might care. The invisible women. The invisible deaths. Marley Crenshaw cares. To get close to Cross, she becomes Sister Catherine: a reformed prostitute who found Jesus, complete with memorized scripture and a testimony that makes grown men weep. For sixteen months, she embeds herself in the revival community, endures Cross's grooming, and waits for her moment. The role is her most elaborate yet. Her most dangerous. Because Catherine is starting to feel real. And Marley is starting to disappear. Meanwhile, an FBI agent is asking questions at truck stops along the corridor. He's looking for the Interstate Vigilante who's been killing serial killers. He interviews Marley twice. Dismisses her both times. Too meek. Too plain. He's looking for a man. He's looking right at her. Easter Sunday. The Suwannee River. Five hundred believers gathered to witness Brother Mitchell's famous mass baptism. Television cameras rolling. The most audacious kill she's ever planned. The most witnesses she's ever faced. And only one question remaining: when she walks out of that water, will she still be Marley? The Blacktop Widow: Dark crime fiction about women who refuse to be victims.