The quirky little city of Fairbridge is about to explode at the intersection of sex, religion and politics. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Fairbridge is home to a sizeable LGBT community; as well as American Evangelical Christianity's brightest rising star. The people have embraced the contrasts and paradoxes as part of life in the New South. Students, hillbillies, snake handling tent revivalists, a new police chief, a feminist lesbian bar owner, rich out-of-staters... they all call Fairbridge home. So far, the uneasy peace has held. Paul Draker - a gay, former Combat Rescue Officer - returns to the city to live out his days peacefully in the woods of Western North Carolina.But as the edges of the peace begin to unravel, and the culture wars reignite, he is on a collision course with a tortured soul on a perverse mission to kill as many LGBT people as possible.