Begat

Book excerpt: Loralee Phillips is a middle-aged televangelist. She enjoys money, power, and glory as she rules over her Raven, North Carolina mega-church. Her home life is a series of challenges as she struggles living with her liberal co-minister husband and rebellious son. Both family members frequently tease and torment her. Loralee's dreams of religious order shatter when her high-school son becomes interested in a young college woman of a different race, a young woman who seems to have mysterious ties to Loralee's husband. Loralee becomes desperate for a solution and ponders seeking advice from a member of her congregation, a man with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan.