Patrick Neal, a young farmer and family man, could not have imagined the danger and conflict he would be caught up amidst by driving his horse and wagon into Bluffton to make a mortgage payment. Easter of 1913 was just days away. His move to Indiana, with his wife and two children seemed to have already erased the dreadful past life that drove them to the new location. Bluffton was filled with good Christian men and women, the perfect place where prosperity arose from the fertile soil faster than groundwater could wick up a sycamore tree. But a single gunshot would change everything instantly. At the same time an even larger threat would fall upon the Wells County folk, residents of its county seat, and even beyond the state boundaries. God would need to be called upon many times over the coming hours and days. And a youth named Handy would fill an unexpected role. Historical reality floats about like floodwater flotsam as a handful of fictional characters drift through record devastation.