Beyond Bethlehem

Chance Wilder is a visual artist battling advancing age, loneliness, and his own criminal tendencies. He rips off the Devil’s Deacons motorcycle club for big bucks as a way of honoring the memory of an old friend. Now his house is burning down, his career as an artist is history and he’s on the run.

Wilder lays low in the small North Country town of Madstone, where he develops a fascination for the women who are Amazing Grace LaRue, who lives with dissociative (multiple) personality disorder.

In Madstone, Wilder strives to change his life even as he becomes a suspect in the death of Grace’s abusive lover and a series of sniper-style slayings of outdoorsmen. Meanwhile the Devil’s Deacons kill yet another of his friends. Wilder vows revenge. He uses his sudden notoriety to lure the bikers to the North Country of New Hampshire where he will let them pursue him into the wilderness, thinking they are the hunters.