<p><strong>"Joe Edd Morris has honed a bullet aimed directly at the heart and soul of the reader."<em></em>–Peggy Webb,<em> USA Today</em> bestselling author of <em>The Language of Silence</em></strong></p><p><strong>"<em>Torched</em> is a gripping novel of forbidden love, and friendship across racial divides." –<em>IndieReader Approved</em></strong></p><p><em>Torched</em> finds Sam Ransom at his first pastoral appointment in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the summer of ’64. At a civil rights rally, he is reunited with two friends from his childhood. His decision to join their efforts to rebuild a black church torched by nightriders sets all three on a collision course with the Klan and two grisly murders. The story is about interracial friendship and romance, the ultimate sacrifice, atonement and redemption.</p>