In Banner, the central story in the novel with the same name, the two towering forces in Scott Godfrey's life, his brother Lance and his father Buddy, have collapsed at their foundations in separate road accidents three years apart. Now, a light from the present reveals the story of one man's bittersweet crusade against an infidel who appears no saint. Set against the beautiful backdrop of South Central Kentucky and rural Arkansas, Allan St. James tells the tragic story of one Kentucky clan but also of the redemption available through the bonds of blood.