Jerome Light is a middle-class, upstanding, married, family man—who happens to be an atheist.
One evening when no one else is home one evening, Jerome steps outside to see the sunset—and then watches as his house is swallowed up by a sinkhole. His insurance company says he is not covered for this “Act of God.” Unable to sue the insurance company or God, Jerome decides to sue a television evangelist named Gideon Calhoun, who regularly says he is “God’s agent here on Earth.” A dashing, mysterious attorney named Thaddeus MacConnell takes the case.
Jerome and Gideon are given surprising mandates from their attorneys. Jerome, the atheist, must prove in court that God exists, and that Gideon is God’s agent. Gideon, the evangelist, must argue that he is not God’s agent, and that God may not even exist!
The families of both men are pulled, sometimes against their will, into this epic battle that changes everyone’s life forever.
Author Jeffrey Melvin Hutchins is one of the pioneers of the closed-captioning service that makes television accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Born in New York City, Jeff grew up in Saudi Arabia and attended high school in Beirut, Lebanon, before earning a degree in broadcasting & film from Boston University. He became a TV producer at WGBH in Boston, and later was a founder of VITAC, the captioning company.
His dystopian novel Perpetuonics was published by Pisgah Press in 2024. Since retiring, he has been the creator of a collection of children’s stories, songs, and videos about Denton the Dragon. In 2022, Denton the Dragon the Musical!, a stage show he wrote with Matthew Gould, debuted.
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ISBN: 978-1-942016-98-4