The Books The Black or White Chronicles

The stage for The Black or White Chronicles was set eons ago.

In the great, bright reaches of eternity past, untold myriads of angels—a third of the heavenly host—followed Satan in a rebellion against God and were cast out of heaven forever. For thousands of years, these fallen angels have roamed the earth, stepping from page to page through history in search of those whose unguarded lives could be decimated by their malevolence. In the late spring of 1945, as summer prepares to launch itself at the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta, we find one of these satanic beings plotting a hideous death for a seven-year-old child—a girl. Our story starts there. 

As the centerpiece for the first story, Abiding Darkness, I chose a lake five miles south of where I grew up. Like any other lake in the Mississippi Delta, Cat Lake is all quiet waters and moss-hung Cypress trees, surrounded by cotton fields. Unlike the other lakes . . . the darkness below the surface of Cat Lake is the dwelling place of something sinister.

The books of The Black or White Chronicles have warmth, humor, and truth in them . . . but because they are about an on-going war, they have blood on them. Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century—from the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta to Texas, from Texas to Viet Nam and back—The Black or White Chronicles track the lives of a closely-knit group of men and women across several generations. These are the heart-scalding stories of memorable heroes who are called into the global conflict with the forces of evil . . . in some cases to die for what they believe.