This is a story about community and grace. Although it's a gritty urban adventure, I call it my "Spring story." It's about a young student of religion who backs into serving a little city church. He, along with all the characters, start out on their own in a series of linked short stories swiftly connecting them all up. All these diverse people form into a community and together have a big adventure in the novelette that is the second part of the book. Events get wilder and wilder and build up to a big, roaring finish in the best of the pot-boiling tradition - a lot like the wonderful, old adventure stories we used to read as kids, but this time for adults. In the midst of all this linking up of everybody meeting everybody else, heaven is at work and our astonished hero meets Jesus, as everything abstract in his life comes butting up against reality. Since early childhood, William David Spencer has been in love with books and, particularly with mysteries and adventure stories. Captivated as a small child by the ingenious tales of Joe Pooh, Teddy Bear Detective, spun out by his endlessly inventive older sister, the young boy was left bereft of sister and story at her untimely death when he was only six years old. Books, poems, music and lyrics were his solace and he has been deeply immersed in creating them ever since.