Renee Miller

Welcome to Albertsville: Population 397...and falling. When Ryan Cassidy claims a house left to him by his estranged grandparents, he becomes tangled in the mystery of a town crushed by a deadly secret spanning generations. The town's power core, which includes the reeve, his council members, and the local police, smother opposition with deceit, brutality and fear. They will stop at nothing to keep the horror they've committed buried. A severe winter storm leaves Albertsville snowbound-a trap only the dead can hope to flee-and Ryan becomes a liability that must be silenced at any cost. The answers to the town's mystery and its salvation are hidden... In the Bones.

This collection of thoughtful reflections looks at events and activities of everyday life and discovers routes to spiritual practice and deeper, daily spirituality. At the behest of CREDO Institute, Inc., which hosts health and wellness conferences and is supported by the Episcopal Church Pension Fund, priest and CREDO conference leader Renée Miller wrote the 20 reflections and grouped them into the categories: Meditative Practice, Ministry Practice, Media Practice, Mind Practice, and Movement Practice. Each entry, accented with color photographs, is aimed at evoking mindfulness in the common activities of life, from music and movie going to reading, writing, and walking. For the reader who wishes to use the book to introduce or more deeply explore spiritual practices with other people or in an instructional setting, each chapter concludes with a nod toward who might be inclined to certain practices, based on individual predilections or personality. The Foreword by Brian Taylor lays out the theological underpinnings of spiritual discipline in what could stand alone as a primer on spiritual practice.

A cocaine drug dealing gangster and a woman priest enter into a relationship that leads both of them into intrigue, betrayal, and redemption. The unorthodox style of the priest takes her into the world of rugged ghetto life and there she finds something more powerful than the sure and certain principles she had thought were so real. What she finds is the reality of sacred love; a love she thought she had touched in the Church, but which is finally made truly real in the presence of the gangster with whom she has shared her soul.