Sea Level — Nancy Hayes Kilgore

Brigid Peterson is the new minister in the remote seaside town of Sand Hill.  The year is 1980 and her parishioners are wary and even hostile to a woman in the pulpit.  She finds a kindred spirit in her new friend Mary Bradley, an artist who believes in the goddess.  But Mary has fallen hopelessly in love with a local drifter, and Brigid's marriage is beginning to crumble, and when Brigid preaches about the female side of God, the whole town divides over her.  Both women have to dive deeper into their spiritual life to find the way through.

Sea Level is a story about ordinary small town life, the mystical landscape of the Delmarva Peninsula, and the passions that erupt over conflicts of belief.