From the Prologue: "In times of greatest need, the Word leapt forth from the unknown, the unexpected. Throughout the millennia of human existence, in obscure country villages and opulent throne rooms across the earth, humble carpenters and enlightened princes spoke the truth of the universe until their very names - Jesus, Lao Tzu, Muhammed, and Buddha - radiated the beauty of the eternal Way. "During the unusually warm spring of 1989, on the edge of the western plains of Minnesota, a new name joined them: Beecher Jones - husband, father, high school principal, unwilling messiah." Beecher Jones just wants to live a peaceful life of a high school principal/aspiring writer in his quiet, little town of Jefferson, MN. Instead, the forces of Evil have other plans: to thrust the reluctant savior onto a spiritual battleground that has transformed the Lake-Woebegone-like community into a morass of depravity, deception, and death. Through the haze that engulfs the town, Beecher and his unlikely accomplices confront their savage adversaries with the only weapon available to them--the Story. The Story that must be told.