Passing through Perfect

Benjamin Church came to the grange hall expecting to meet someone else, but then the girl in a red dress looked across the dance floor and smiled…


Passing through Perfect is a heart-wrenching, Southern family saga that starts on the night Benjamin fell madly and completely in love with Delia. Once he tasted the sweetness of her kiss, he envisioned them spending the rest of their life together.


He didn’t stop to consider her daddy was a learned Pastor and her mama a woman with a college degree; he only knew she set his heart to racing. When he touched his mouth to hers, he forgot the hardships of being a sharecropper, forgot what it was like to work from dawn ‘til dark and forgot that nothing in Grinder’s Corner ever really changed.


Benjamin’s only thoughts were about lying together every night, sitting side by side on the front porch, and raising a family.  Yes, he knew there’d be heartaches.  Every couple had their share of heartaches, it was to be expected; but he never imagined such a tragedy would befall their family.


Winner of the 2016 RONE Award for Inspirational Fiction and the 2016 Readers Favorite Gold Medal.