Wait till I come down

It's the spring of 1987. Damian is a rough-edged loner who lives on the margins as a small-time drug dealer and smuggler. When events go horribly, murderously wrong, he flees into the remote wilderness-the only place he can feel at peace-to hide from the outside world and the people hunting him. Connie is a low-rent, small-town former beauty queen who married into a pool of Texas new money. Despite her social status and lavish lifestyle, Connie is tortured by recurring visions of a dark, sinister force that threatens her, her husband, and their only daughter, a brooding teenager. Connie seeks out professional help from of a psychotherapist with highly unorthodox methods and mysterious motives, who helps her delve into a disturbing past that may, or may not, be real. A shocking scandal erupts in the small town of Duro, where a large, popular church with a charismatic preacher finds itself the focus of vicious, unspeakable rumors. A gentle and well-liked youth minister, suddenly finds himself a suspect for crimes and despicable acts he could never have imagined. As he starts to doubt his own faith and sanity, he is stunned to learn the identity of his accuser. An ill-fated cross-country airplane journey puts them all onto an unlikely common trajectory. In his second novel, West Texas native Henry D. Terrell tells a story that flies from the gleaming high rises of Dallas, to a corrupt and played-out boomtown, to the frozen heights of the New Mexico mountains.