Tares among the Wheat, Volume One

     This is the first volume of a two-volume novel that includes two interrelated story lines. Neither volume stands alone. Volume one introduces the story lines, develops the characters, and builds the plots. The first volume ultimately requires the second volume to bring both story lines to adequate conclusion.
     Throughout this novel the two interrelated story lines progress intermittently. Curiosities, mysteries, challenges, and adventures arise throughout the story lines, some resolved in the course of the stories and others not resolved until the final chapters of volume two. Absent of the first volume, the conclusions, revelations, discoveries, and disclosures of the second volume would be much less understood and appreciated.