The most detailed study yet of early Mormon thought about the ""end times,"" The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism shows how Mormon views of Christ's imminent second coming exerted a profound influence on Mormonism between 1830 and 1846. By exploring how early LDS interpretation of the Bible and the Book of Mormon affected, and was affected by, Mormon millennial doctrines, Grant Underwood provides the first comprehensive linkage of the history of early Mormonism and millennial thought. He also probes LDS perceptions of the institutions and values prevalent before the Civil War, reassessing Mormonism's relationship to the dominant culture and placing Mormon millennial thought in the broader context of Judeo-Christian ideas about the end of the world.
Sydney is thrilled that a large floral conglomerate has chosen her advertising agency to help it put on the annual international show covering all aspects of the floral industry. However, Sydney's joy is short-lived and anxiety begins when show participants start dying -- just after receiving a beautiful floral arrangement.
Where there's smoke. . . Sydney Teague makes her living by using her head, not her heart. But when it came to Seth Bolick, she couldn't help herself. He was a man obsessed, plunging his life and soul into one remarkable invention: a safe synthetic-nicotine substitute. When she agreed to take him on as a client of her small Charlotte, North Carolina, ad agency, Sydney could not imagine the work she would end up doing for Seth: It's her job to find his killer. The police call it a suicide, and so does Seth's family. Sydney knows they're wrong. When she starts investigating Seth's last days and the forces that were gathering against him, she exposes a pattern of lies and murderous violence amid the tobacco-rich fields of North Carolina. Now Sydney Teague is not just another hard-driving businesswoman who doesn't know when to quit: She's the next, best candidate for murder. . . .
Introducing Sydney Teague: A Southern adwoman caught in a campaign of murder... Sydney Teague has it all together--barely. A single mother, the owner of an advertising agency, she's a woman with one foot in the Old South, and the other firmly planted in the new. But while Sydney grows her business, meets the needs of her two children, and lives life one day at a time, an old friend hasn't been so lucky. Sydney's hard-loving, hard-living friend, Crystal, is dead, and Sydney wants to know why. The answer is not coming from the police--not even from a handsome cop who shows more than a professional interest in Sydney. Instead, Sydney discovers that Crystal's brutal death is part of an even more shocking crime spree--and that some of the clues lie in the steamy city of Charlotte's golden real estate market. Even worse: Someone Sydney knows all too well may be holding the key to a case of multiple murder....
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