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with that small reassurance. A cold north wind blew in suddenly, and she shivered and wrapped her arms around herself. Just a moment ago it had been sunny. But now dark, heavy clouds filled the sky.
    A storm was coming.

CHAPTER 2
    “A MEN .”
    Wolfe Boone opened his eyes. He half expected to see angels and white light hovering above him, but instead the church had actually seemed to darken while they prayed. He looked at the reverend, who was smiling. The reverend glanced outside.
    “Looks like some clouds have rolled in.”
    Wolfe nodded but found himself speechless. Though the windows didn’t gleam with supernatural light, something was astoundingly different. The change was on the inside, however, and though he couldn’t be certain, he expected he looked just the same on the outside. Still, there was a remarkable tranquility inside his spirit, nearly unexplainable for a man who could describe just about anything. He chewed at his fingernails as he pondered this.
    He also pondered evil. He’d met money and fame while writing of ghosts and goblins and devils and demons. And while most critics of his genre would argue that he was as evil as the characters he developed, Wolfe Boone had always sensed that in a war between good and evil, good would always win in the end, that good and evil were not mutually equal enemies. He knew evil to be weaker and believed it depended on manipulative and seedy tactics to stay in the game. Though it was meaner and darker than he’d ever imagined, it was powerless against the Life that now resided in him.
    And as he processed the forgiveness he’d just received and the new life he’d been given, he felt as if wisdom had replaced whatever intelligence he possessed. Life was not the same.
    “You have a lot to think about,” the reverend said, and Wolfe blinked away his thoughts. “How do you feel?”
    Wolfe rubbed his hands together. His mind contained a vast number of words, and he could pick any one of them as if flipping through a dictionary, but only one word seemed completely appropriate: “New.”
    The reverend nodded and grinned. “The Bible says you are a new creation now. The old has gone. The new has come.” The reverend looked down at his hands, as if trying to find a way to describe something. He then said, “You will find that your perception has changed. Things will look different now than they did before.” His eyes were filled with light and peace. “And all that you regretted in your life is buried. A new life has been given to you.”
    Wolfe managed to smile at the reverend despite the fact that he felt he could cry. He did it intentionally. He knew he could appear serious and brooding, which many people mistook for dark and creepy.
    The reverend returned the smile and stuck out his hand for Wolfe to shake. “I’m glad to know you. I’m so glad you came here today.”
    “I’m glad too,” Wolfe replied, shaking his hand firmly.
    The reverend stood suddenly. “How about some lunch?”
    “Lunch?”
    “Yes. How about you and I have lunch together?”
    Wolfe stood too. He’d never eaten lunch with anyone in this town before.
    “We better hurry,” the reverend said, ushering him out the door. “The wind’s blowing something furious in.”
    They stepped outside into the wind and made their way down the hill into the town. Wolfe towered over the gentle and meek man beside him, but somehow the reverend seemed to stand a little taller. A swelling of pride filled Wolfe’s heart as he accompanied the reverend. He had a new friend, and that was nothing short of a miracle.
    “Haunted Mansion restaurant okay?” the reverend asked as they made their way along the sidewalk.
    “Sure.”
    “I like their Thrilled Cheese sandwich.” The reverend glanced to the bushes, which rattled as he and Wolfe walked by. “Shoo! Outta here!” Acouple of frolicking cats bristled, then moved deeper into the bushes, out of sight. “Those cats!”
    Twenty yards away from The