“Allie and Mark Branning paused at the door of the fellowship hall, where supper cooked by some of the deacons’ wives was being served. Every table was filled to capacity, and some of the teenaged boys were carrying folding chairs in for those in the overflow. “Good grief.” Mark stopped just inside the doorway, scanning the crowd. “I haven’t seen some of these people since Easter. Are the children singing tonight?” Though the children’s musicals were always a big crowd sweller, what with all tho...se proud parents and grandparents with their camcorders and cameras, Allie felt sure that wasn’t the draw tonight. When there was drama in town, people came to church. It was the central clearinghouse for all of the gossip that had filtered its way from telephone line to telephone line. Allie saw Dan Nichols sitting at the end of one of the tables with two seats vacant, and when he waved for them to take them, they headed toward him. “I saved you a couple of seats if you want them,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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