Now for the first time both Styx Crossing novels are published in one volume. THE PARSON OF STYX CROSSING: Homesteaders in a small Texas settlement had a hard life but a gruff clergyman proved helpful. They knew him as "the Parson" and assumed he was an itinerant preacher, but he was something more. The challenges of frontier life in the 1870s pit men and women against the forces of mother nature, human nature, and their own spiritual struggles. The more the parson became involved in their lives, the more they came to believe that he walked with God. EXILES OF PARADISE: The scrappy parson rides into a lynching and is swindled by the local cattle barons over funds to build the church. The challenges of nature and of man in building a frontier town can shake faith in God or make it stronger. Rebecca, Jeb Jackson, Red, Doc Taylor, and other colorful characters return in this tale of the 1870s life in northern Texas.