The second novel of the Lake Superior Series takes on the extreme edge of Pentecostalism (the fastest growing religion on earth) with the true back-story of how business and government conspired to kill a budding Native American wild rice industry in the 1970's. The wreck of the Benjamin Goth is also based on a true story. All of these threads are woven into a character driven mystery based on a man trying to recover his soul amid the spectacle of the largest lake on earth.

RESURRECTION
A Lake Superior Mystery

After a sixteen-year exile, Ben Scot returns to his Lake Superior home for a funeral–– His father's, the six-term US Senator from Minnesota and the sole survivor of the worst shipwreck in Lake Superior history. The sinking of the freighter, the Benjamin Goth has remained an unsolved mystery for fifty years. Some say the Senator has carried the secret to the grave.

Ben decides to remain at the side of his ailing Native American mother. To heal past wounds, he slowly connects two unrelated events to his father's past: the unsolved hit and run death of his Down syndrome sister and a plot to destroy an Indian-owned wild rice industry. He must also deal with sudden appearance of the father’s illegitimate son, a wealthy Pentecostal pastor named Saul, who offers a high-paying job to entice Ben into allowing a tent show revival to be built on the land that has fallen into his mother’s hands, a rugged Lake Superior peninsula called Resurrection Point. Amid an onslaught of radical Pentecostals and threats of eminent domain, Ben uncovers signs of a conspiracy, but is too obsessed with a vivacious snake-handler woman to heed the warnings behind a wave of deadly accidents.

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