. When a self-destructive idler is visited by witnesses of a brand new Faith, he discovers the gospel they are spreading is based on a blog he authored years before. After his best friend quotes L. Ron Hubbard, "If you want to make millions of dollars, start a religion," he decides to take the reins of this budding new church, only he no longer believes a word of it.

For the world's leading literary theorist, the prospect of tutoring one student, with the intent of fostering the greatest writer of the twenty-first century, seems at first preposterous. But after meeting the precocious young boy it proves a worthy challenge. If he can overlook the uneasy feeling he has about his employer's sprawling compound in Argentina, full of gifted prodigies, all being prepped to become the leaders of their respective fields. To compound the challenge, the boy doesn't aspire to be a writer; his passion is for baseball, like his older brother George, who just might be...

They just wanted to open a rock-and-roll nightclub. But when renovating their newly acquired, Creole building in New Orleans, a former Grunge musician, Eric Talbert, and his young wife, Sarah, discover lewd postcards from the eighteen hundreds, advertising the talents of fallen doves. Under a layer of paint they find a mural that depicts ominous looking cherubs dancing around an orange sunrise. Below it, written in French, it reads: La Maison Du Soleil Levant, "The House of the Rising Sun." A farm boy with a pretty voice and a dream to make it as a rock guitarist, Johnny Hudson, comes to work...