Devoted to his wife and firm in his faith, popular preacher Nathan Scott’s world is turned upside down when he meets Shara, a young parishioner in the bloom of womanhood. When a friendship turns into a passionate affair, Nathan finds himself caught between the potent poles of Agape and Eros. He struggles to live up to the expectations of his congregants (and God) and fulfill his duties as husband and father, as his deepening affair begins to consume him. As the stakes – and the risks – mount, he searches desperately for a way to reconcile the threads in his life.Set in the American South in the 1960s, when traditional mores clashed tumultuously with radical new ways of living and loving, Boyd captures, with deft philosophical acuity and lyric prose, a period of upheaval in the life of his protagonist and those around him – and an irrepressible love that will change all of them forever, and illuminate Nathan to the full weight of his oft-uttered “What selfish gods we be, to seek someone seeking me.”Author BioBoyd was born and raised in Dunedin, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in educational psychology research from Temple University, and during his lengthy career served as assistant pastor of three large Presbyterian churches, dean of students at two small colleges, director of special education and training at two residential institutions for developmentally delayed children, and associate professor and chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies, University of South Florida. Now retired and living in the mountains of North Carolina, he enjoys spending time with his wife, his four grown children, and five grandchildren.