The Swineherd’s Angel

Upmarket, contemporary, general fiction of about 122,000 words, it will appeal to teen and adult readers who enjoy stories with captivating prose, themes with substance, and settings and characters they will care about. The story happens in 2005 in central Iowa. The woman, and a young man who grew up on a swine farm near Ames, become united in a foreign animal disease outbreak. It occurs on the farm where the man’s parents still live. The outbreak proves to be limited in scope as a secretive federal testing program. Exposing different religious and cultural perspectives, the story portrays relationships seeking outcomes of faith, hope, justice, and love.