A haunting phone call lures Carlton Richards to eastern Colorado, where he finds a body and launches a search for answers. Strange goings on immediately confound the simple mystery of identifying the dead woman and determining their connection. During the investigation, both lives are exposed through dreams and flashbacks. Carlton is crude, hard-driven and lascivious, but while unweaving the mystery, his personality seems to change. What's happening? Is Carlton simply experiencing then resolving a mid-life crisis? Can Victoria Goodsen's initially confusing, daringly sexual, and then mystical...

Few Americans know the real history behind the First Amendment and even fewer understand how the Supreme Court has interpreted the establishment and freedom of religion clauses. They rely on misrepresentations from secular and religious extremists, one saying America was founded as a Christian nation and the other declaring just the opposite. These warring factions variously label our Founding Fathers as Christians, Deists or Atheists, ascribe different meanings to the Declaration of Independence's words, "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," and argue the meaning of early federal actions...