The Devil's Favorite Boy

In the dying steel town of Kelloway, Pennsylvania, people have always known there are things best left unsaid.

When former minor league pitcher Vincenzo "Enzo" Marchetti returns home after his father's death, old patterns begin to stir. Strangers become obsessed. Longing turns dangerous. And one by one, those who love him begin to die.

Father Thomas Keane, a young priest fleeing his own troubled past, arrives at St. Agatha's believing he has been assigned to a quiet parish. Instead, he finds a town haunted by decades of silence, a history buried beneath funeral records and whispered warnings, and a beautiful stonemason carving a saint who bears his own face.

As winter closes over Kelloway, Thomas and Enzo are drawn together by forces neither fully understands. Around them, old secrets rise from the dead: an unanswered telephone call, a grieving mother who has spent twenty-six years listening to a voice that should not exist, a forgotten love affair, and a curse woven through generations of desire, shame, sacrifice, and loss.

At once a ghost story, a love story, and a meditation on faith, The Devil's Favorite Boy explores the cost of loneliness, the danger of self-denial, and the question at the heart of every human life:

What if the thing we're taught to fear is the very thing that can save us?

Some voices never die.

Some prayers are answered.

And some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.