Margaret Sullivan, a troubled college student in her early twenties,
becomes a modern-day Joan of Arc when she is compelled to save humanity as
the pinnacle of evil comes to seize what he believes was his in NOBODY’S
MULLIGAN by Brian Holt.
Orphaned at childbirth and raised by her
maternal grandparents, Margaret feels the sting of loss when her grandmother
dies. With no maternal figure in her life to offer her comfort and guidance,
Margaret becomes a borderline traumatic social recluse and is treated as an
outcast, despite participating in admirable callings, and is left with her
ailing grandfather, Paddy Sullivan. What she doesn’t realize is that evil is
actively afoot and identifies her as an impediment to Satan’s global
apocalyptic conquest.
Craig Templeton, an unmotivated, barely
graduated gamer existing in his mother’s basement, seeks employment at a PR
firm, assigned to the mailroom, which he perceives as corporate leprosy and
beneath him given his freshly minted college degree. Templeton’s rust-relic
of a car is the perfect prompt for Satan, as he sees Templeton ogling the
high-end vehicles believing that he is already deserving of such
amenities.
Drawn against their will into the town square on the
night of the apocalypse arranged by a series of circumstances under
Templeton’s influence, the citizens of Grace’s Parrish are confronted by the
accumulated product of their own transgressions, and universal suffrage is
served. Perplexed by her grandfather’s apparent immunity to Templeton’s
will, Margaret ultimately realizes that faith will triumph over evil. The
price is heavy, as the town seeks redemption from the only one who can grant
it. With it comes a caveat that one detractor in the group will re-invite
the apocalypse with increased severity.
Margaret’s heroism is
handsomely rewarded as she ultimately finds transcendence that no mortal
could deliver—a unification with the one person whose absence created an
emotional abyss, as well as an explanation of her grandfather’s immunity to
Satan’s will which is epic. And she ultimately finds her happily ever after
with a love-match that is intriguingly coincidental! The ending nicely
sets the stage for the workings of a prequel.
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