Prologue
Isabel Fairbanks was a lovely, dark-haired woman in her late twenties. Her husband, Ralph, was tall, dark-haired, handsome and built like a college halfback. He was also the town's minister, and knew more about God than he did about Freud. Deputy Sheriff Curt Sylvester was an ape of a man with an insatiable lust, and when he saw Isabel for the first time, he knew he could show her more of heaven than her husband could.