The Preacher the Fisherman and the Cahaba

The headwaters of the Cahaba River are neither wide nor fierce. So its almost unimaginable to think that the police found Billys friend there lifeless below their waters.The first fifteen years of Billys life have been spent in commune with the Cahaba tracing its winding path through the beautiful valleys of his small hometown Shilos Beat Alabama. But ever since Jessies death the same landscape that has long comforted him now seems to be conspiring against him.What happened to Jessie? Was it the strange old man they call the Mayor? Or maybe Jessies dangerous adversary from up on the mountain? Everyone keeps insisting that Jessie killed himself but Billy knows it cant be true. If things had gotten that bad Billy would have known right?Intent on finding answers and haunted by a progressive parasomnia that blurs the edges between reality and dreams the symbolic and the supernatural Billy leans on his eccentric Uncle John and a cast of characters as unique as the Cahaba itself to make sense of it all.If he wants to learn the truth Billy must grapple with the long and varied history thats hidden deep within the red clay of this old land - the persistent distinctively southern legacy that followed the Scotch-Irish into the foothills of Appalachia. But the truth is messy. And Billy should tread carefully because as well as he knows the creek he may not be wandering alone.