Reading from 'Preacher Fakes a Miracle'

Some troubled teens are in much more trouble than they realize.

The gentrification of Missouri farmland has brought not only casino culture but also investors and influencers from all over the world. Evan Wycliff, a lapsed Baptist minister and unconfessed agnostic, often gets dragged into dealing with problems others have given up solving. There's an orphanage that serves young women, and some get placed in part-time work at the lakeside resorts.

They're supposed to be working in the laundry. But some have been pushed upstairs.

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And then the prettiest one goes missing...

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