Not Exactly Godless

<p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>It was the '90s in Charleston SC. Cell phones were becoming a thing. Martha Stewart hadn't gone to prison. Bill Clinton has not had sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The edges of the town were now an anarchic sprawl of unrestrained growth. Fast food asphalt car lots with giant American flags. But at the bottom of the peninsula the old families clung to the myth of timeless Charleston while grasping at any source of income.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>One thing they had a nose for was valuable artifacts because so many had lived for so long selling off heirlooms one by one.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The discovery of a super-rare Tiverton commode has them in a frenzy of greed and murder seems a logical outcome.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>An odd mix of characters gets embroiled.</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Honor Revenue divinity professor's daughter and heart-stopping beauty who has spent her short life warding off obsessive nuts.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>South-of-Broad drone Chandler Lovelace who has never held a job but knows his furniture.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Simpering twit Rusty Royall Rector of the august St. Ambrose who believes he's in thrall to a witch.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Talisha Mackey who's trying to hold together a bankrupt gospel radio station while fending off the advances of a love-obsessed decrepit root doctor.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Beau-Jack McCully good ol' boy trickster who is a deft hand at furniture reproduction.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Plus assorted thieves outlaws and bunco artist men of the cloth. While Rannie Ralston the meanest lawyer in Charleston watches and schemes.</span></li></ul><p></p>