Embrace Me

**Biting and gentle, hard-edged and hopeful . . . a beautiful fable of love

and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption.**

When a "lizard woman," a self-mutilating preacher, a tattoed monk, and a

sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter,

their lives are edging precariously close to disaster . . . and improbably

close to grace.