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Father Matt Callahan grew up in the shadow of his family's history in the Black Hills, and now, as a disillusioned former bishop, he returns to Deadwood needing money more than answers — only to find the house he means to sell holds an inheritance far more complicated than he bargained for.
 
A century-old secret passage beneath a family cemetery shared by two feuding families, a brother he never knew, a priest who has spent decades speaking around the truth instead of through it — the deeper Matt digs, the more the secrets behind fraud and violence turn out to run straight back to his own blood.
 
But the real reckoning is Matt's own. Matt has spent his life speaking on behalf of faith and forgiveness and is now forced to test whether he can still practice either. In Deadwood, the past is never dead. It is waiting.
 
The Deadwood Prodigal is an upmarket suspense novel about what it costs to come home, and what it means to be forgiven for needing to.