Lesser Gods
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Narrated by:
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Samuel Chisholm
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Samuel Chisholm
THE SHINING meets WACO in a literary cult thriller set beneath a historic New Hampshire blizzard.
At forty-two, Boston Globe reporter Clark Browning is burning out: his marriage is failing, his family is slipping away, and his suicide note is already on draft three. Then his editor sends him to Barne, New Hampshire, to profile the Fellowship of the Holy Oak—a Christian-flavored cult poised to go mainstream.
Its leader, Leonard James Branch, is charismatic, intellectually magnetic, and disturbingly good at turning Clark’s failures into evidence of spiritual potential. As the storm closes the roads, Clark embeds with the congregation. A sheriff’s suicide looks staged. An innkeeper turns up headless. Parishioners vanish into the church’s back corridors.
Drawn from observer to participant, Clark must decide whether to expose Holy Oak—or turn Leonard into the masterpiece that saves his career.
©2026 Samuel Chisholm (P)2026 Samuel Chisholm