Mallory Peterson, aka Pastor Pete, has been the pastor of All Souls, a church in Kittleson, Minnesota, for less than a year. She chose the church in spite of the church's shaky finances, hoping that she could help improve the situation. A number of church members have defected in the past few years, going to the Prince of Peace Church, whose finances are in much better health.
A number of women on a church committee called The Naomi Circle are bent on finding a way to fundraise, wanting to do something really different. They brainstorm, along with Pastor Pete and LeAnn, her best friend from college, and someone suggests that instead of a cook book, they produce an ABC Book of Erotica. Not all those present are fully enamored of the idea, but the seed is planted, and Pastor Pete tells them to think it over. We get to know each of the members of this committee (my taking a few notes now and then helped me keep straight who is who) and how their thinking leads them to various letters of the alphabet and what they could write about. Erotica isn't really the right word for what is being produced, but it works to evoke the thinking and change the lives and relationships of several characters along the way.
Landvik's characters are always believable, with values and foibles of real people, which is one reason I really enjoy her novels.
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