Juvenile detention or farm life in Iowa? Cosmos Coyote doesn't really have a choice after his last run-in with the law. Iowa is nothing like the smells, the people, his ultra-religious relatives, church every Sunday. Cosmos will have to hide his real self -- the "Coyote" -- behind his new persona, "William the Nice." But who is more Cosmos or William? All he knows for sure is that he's falling for a girl whose Christian faith is as strong as she is beautiful and smart. Can their desire for each other stay within the rules set by her beliefs? How can they be together, when everything about their world seems to keep them apart?
It feels like this is written by an outsider, trying to consider Christian faith from the inside. He treats the religious girl with respect, shows even the legalistic community as having a strong sense of caring, but the sex scene is a handbook for how to have an orgasm without taking your clothes off. The discussion near the end of the girl's personal relationship with God (p 155ff) is long enough to be preachy without any real content. Some good stuff, but...