A delightful collection of short stories, based on the life and times of Harold J. Baxter, the author's alter-ego. From the days of his youth, to his marriage and career, here are eighteen heartwarming stories of Baxter's friends and family, of his victories and his challenges.

He had always struggled with it: deja vu - that unsettling feeling that something you are experiencing right now has actually happened in every detail some time in your own past. You can't anticipate it; you are minding your own business when suddenly you have a powerful, inexplicable sensation that you remember this moment, or the angle of the sunlight, or the smell of a specific perfume. But in Baxter's case, this troubling experience occurred so often that it happened not only in waking moments, but it also invaded his dreams; nearly every night he had the same dream, and within that dream, while he was sleeping, he experienced deja vu. His was deja reve - I have dreamed this before.

From the older images of a sad, blue-eyed Jesus to the more recent, more violently graphic portrayals of his suffering, Hollywood has trained us to see the savior of the world as just another victim. To be sure, Jesus Christ endured terrible physical abuse and a barbaric death, but the night before it all happened, when he prayed in agony, alone in the garden, he was anticipating a much darker prospect, a terrible moment that according to Luke's Gospel would cause the sun's light to fail. The Hush presents an alternative view, a much larger, more comprehensive look at the familiar story, combining a unique blend of speculation with the biblical record. Passion and humor and friendship are exchanged between Jesus and his disciples, while all around them danger and conflict and unseen posturing mounts. The week wears away, the hours tick down, the trials commence, and the abuse escalates. Evil is unleashed like never before. And then comes the moment when the sun refuses to shine; as the Lord of the universe is nailed to a tree and lifted from the earth, the Hush descends.