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Finalist - Next Generation Indie Book Awards (LGBT+)
Semifinalist - BookLife Prize for General Fiction

"An engrossing saga of a gay man dealing with the sins of a lurid past while moving assuredly into the future." -Kirkus Reviews

In Simon's Mansion, the third installment in William Poe's deeply personal Powell Legacy Series, Simon Powell returns home to Arkansas seeking peace-and perhaps a second chance.

Once a gifted boy whose love for art and music was crushed under the weight of religious shame and a father's bigotry, Simon escaped into the fervor of Reverend Moon's Unification Church, where he married a stranger and lost himself in the promise of salvation. Years later, broken by addiction and exile, he's sober, out of the church, and ready to face the life he left behind.

With Thad, his partner in love and recovery, Simon tries to reclaim his creative voice, care for his ailing mother, and rebuild family ties strained by faith, grief, and old wounds. But shadows from his past still follow him-including a betrayal that left a dangerous enemy abroad. As Simon begins to transform the family barn into an art studio and re-enrolls in college, the line between renewal and reckoning grows increasingly thin.

Set against the richly drawn backdrop of rural Arkansas, Simon's Mansion is a poignant exploration of identity, love, and the difficult work of healing. It's a story about coming home-to place, to purpose, to oneself.