This small town Canada story could be any young persons account of what it was like to grow up facing religious intolerance masked by conditional words of love, bullying of those who do not fit some peoples standard of normalcy, and the whole-scale resistance to acceptance of difference. In this first book of the Journeys of Courage series, Brock Matheson, a striking athletic 17 year old, confronts his darkest fears and discovers his true self.
