This is a somewhat similar story to the first, but takes place in a different location, without the gratuitous sex. Others do those much better than I, so I will stick with what I think I am better at. The characters might change as does the plot. It takes place up in Alaska's Brooks Range, and around Fairbanks, and then moves out west. The story will live or die on its own merits.
You never know what will turn up on the back of a truck. Allan's life has not gone the way he would have liked. He lives the life of a traveller, almost living permanently in his truck now that he has lost his family. Then a young woman comes into his life. Allan feels he's to old for an emotional involvement with her. But he can pretend that she is his daughter. She brings a purpose back to his existence.
Scientist Rebecca, 28 years old, ambitious, hard-working, and indifferent to sex, moves into an townhouse with two younger men. She discovers there is something more to life than her laboratory.
Leigh starts a new job working in a warehouse. But in the process she finds that the man that she has been dating isn't the one for her. Is Jason,one of her new co-workers, the right one? He seemed to think so, but is Leigh willing to take the chance again?
Father John is transferred to his third parish. Each time he was caught molesting his parishioners. This time we find him in a small parish in the Bible Belt in the 1950's.