In many circumstances, religion has been used to bully and intimidate women and deprive them of power. It may have offered inspiration and meaning, but too often it has been something of a gilded cage.

“Hoo boy,” Duff says under his breath. “Jase got burned deep on that pass.”

The man who burned down the plaas, deserves himself to be burned, cried Solomon with irrelevant heat.

Those and the dark jacket, the blazer, at least he felt smart in that without being dressed up like a dog's dinner.