God's House

<p><em>God's House</em> is a novel in three parts. In the first part -<em>Return to God's House</em>-like her namesake in Pilgrim's Progress Chrischana Twitchell is fleeing a destructive life in a place she thinks of as the City of Destruction. With her three sons she returns to Gottheim Maine and an uncertain welcome in the Meguntic Mountains she loves. Called Gott'im by its inhabitants this rural village and surrounding wilderness are changing with the influx of newcomers. Tensions between descendents of yankee settlers and those 'from away' have made it a place in transition where neighbors struggle to know one another in a real way. Return to God's House is the first book of <em>God's House</em>.<br><br>-<em>Within Without</em>- is the second book in God's House the story of a rural Maine village in transition. Full of local color and character it continues the story of Chrischana Twitchell's return to Gott'im and introduces Peter Prince her troubled common-law spouse who follows her from the desert to reclaim his family. As a stranger in Gottheim he experiences bitter truths and redeeming hopes about himself and the nature of life in <em>God's House</em>.<br><br>-<em>In Winter</em>- is the third book in God's House. Here begins increasing mythic qualities as Jasper Mountain comes alive and nature redounds with fury to her glory. The wild creatures and inhabitants of Gott'im suffer.... And too they benefit from the recoil of human erring on a grand scale. When it so happens in God's House setting the stage for them to enter into <em>God's Wilderness</em>. <em>God's Wilderness</em>-to be published-is the completion of <em>The God's Cycle</em>.<br><br><em>The God's Cycle</em> is five books in two parts. <em>GOD'S HOUSE and GOD'S WILDERNESS. </em>Plus <em>Gott'im's Monster 1808</em>.</p>