Leading Horses

Totally disillusioned and teetering on the brink of a complete emotional breakdown, the Reverend Arland Haverhill abruptly abandons his multi-million-dollar megachurch in Greenfield, South Carolina and goes on a noble quest for the illusive truth while his old high school sweetheart, the beautiful Lois Hartby, pursues a career in art and wrestles with her own fleeting sanity in their old hometown of Ayrington up in the more northern of the two Carolinas. A perennial pair of sweethearts back at Ayrington High, they’ve long gone their separate ways. In the following decades, Lois and her art have remained buried in the obscurity of a dying southern mill town, while Arland Haverhill has become a household name. Their separate journeys have continued to cross…Leading Horses is more than a whimsical look at a dark comic tragedy and it is far more than a simple story of unrequited love and abandoned dreams. It is not a book about horses. It is a very human story of how the difference between uplifting hope and utter despair is oftentimes a mere matter of choice.