Good Thunder

Three days have passed since the fire that reduced the College of St. Bernadette to ashes. Everyone with useful skills is up and gone. The rest are wandering in a fog, trying to make sense of the death of their beloved Father Scott the same night. Right before his national televangelical debut he goes skydiving, what sense does that even make, and embeds himself in the Minnesota prairie, just outside the town of Good Thunder, a perfectly good parachute still strapped to his back. But when his casket arrives at the mortuary, it's clear that something has been lost . . . and found.