Jane Cooper Easton's novel, IN THE SEVENTH DAY follows Kevin Hillar, a young and inexperienced reverend who plants a church in Southern Indiana where he quickly and skillfully violates a marriage. He simultaneously dupes the entire Vevay community while he manipulates local tobacco farmer, Tom Gateway into a twisted idea of godly marriage: woman is the pinnacle of God's creation but she belongs to the man who may do with her as he wills. The Indiana Office of Criminal Investigations is soon called in by local law enforcement due to several inexplicable crimes.