Simple Simon

Winner, IndieReader Discovery Award for LGBT Fiction
Finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year, Gay & Lesbian Fiction

At eighteen, Simon Powell walked away from his family, his art, and the knowledge that he was gay to join Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

For the next ten years, he sold flowers on street corners, rose into the Church's leadership, entered an arranged marriage, and worked behind the scenes during Reverend Moon's celebrated tax-evasion trial. All the while, Simon...