ISBN 078-1-929490-23-3
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March 2008
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Kamallah's Bracelet
A N O V E L
by Derek Smith
Earnest, naive, and shy with women, the
Reverend Denson Roswell is the newly appointed pastor of the Mt. Absalom Baptist
Church in the south Georgia town of Levidgville during the early 1960's. Instead
of being a brimstone-spouting preacher who stirs his flock with sermons laced
with hellfire and damnation, he becomes deeply embroiled
himself with a temptress who answers his personals ad in an Atlanta newspaper, and
then with a deranged, sexually aggressive church member. Tortured by the entrapments
in which he unwittingly is immersed,
Denson becomes convinced that all is hopeless and is consumed by guilt. Although
deficient in worldly wisdom and good judgment, he eventually is saved, his
redemption, in the end, coming from the most ungodly and surprising quarter.
Derek Smith is a masterly storyteller, and here he weaves a
fascinating tale full of colorful characters, set against a backdrop of life in
the 1960's South.
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A former journalist whose works have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, Derek Smith is a native of Bishopville, South Carolina, and a graduate of Georgia Southern University. His six books also include Civil War Savannah and The Sentinels. He now lives in Williamsville, New York.
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