![]() He’s doing his best to trigger some intimacy with her by roping her into joining him in his charity work for a Chicago inner-city neighborhood church. One of his parishioners, the recently widowed Frances Cottrell, has also turned his head for opposite reasons. Russ is so entrenched in viewing Ambrose as his nemesis that he can hardly think straight. As the novel opens, Russ is estranged from Crossroads, following an unspecified “humiliation” three years earlier at the hands of his Crossroads co-leader, Rick Ambrose, who greatly increased the youth group’s popularity. Set in the fictional Chicago suburb of New Prospect in 1971, it takes its name from a touchy-feely Christian youth group at First Reformed, a Protestant church where family man Russ Hildebrandt is an associate pastor. ![]()
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