CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS
ALSO BY C. JOSEPH GREAVES
Hard TwistedTom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo)
AS CHUCK GREAVES
The Jack MacTaggart Mystery Series
Hush MoneyGreen-Eyed LadyThe Last Heir
CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS
a novel
C. JOSEPH GREAVES
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
First Torrey House Press Edition, September 2019
Copyright © 2019 by Charles J. Greaves
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or retransmitted in any form or by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Published by Torrey House Press
Salt Lake City, Utah
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-948814-12-6
E-book ISBN: 978-1-948814-13-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019932479
Cover art “Mt. Sinai” by Julia Buckwalter
Cover design by Kathleen Metcalf
Interior design by Rachel Davis
Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
For the warriors
CONTENTS
What becomes of our earliest childhood—its sights and sounds, its textures and smells? Of diapers and talcum, nursing and teething, babbled words and first baby steps? All of life’s novelties, miraculous and shining and, one would think, indelible. Yet their memory, so dear and enduring to the parent, is lost somehow