Deadly Discrimination: a Fr. Jake Mystery

In Providencia, Carlotta sells her store to a Muslim, Bahir Ahmed. Fr. Jake arranges to meet Ahmed and finds out he is from Albuquerque, married with a wife and two children, and his father is Imam at the Islamic Center in town. At Mass, Fr. Jake asks his parishioners to be tolerant to the new store owners, as Jesus was to strangers. Fr. Jake helps Cynthia Plow organize a community meeting to teach residents more about the Islamic religion, and the Ahmeds attend to answer questions. After the meeting, both Fr. Jake and Cynthia receive threatening mail. Milton Pointer, a white supremacist in another town, reads about the sale and devises an elaborate scheme to torch the store by smashing a Hummer "borrowed" from the Fort into the gas pumps. Sherriff Griego, who is guarding the store, shoots Pointer dead through the windshield and arrests his accomplice, who must stand trial. Fr. Jake gets a surprise visit from Archbishop Benisek, who tells Fr. Jake that the Detroit Prelate wants him back in Michigan to run his old parish. A young priest, Father Luis Montoya, has come along to replace Fr. Jake in Providencia. Juan Herrera and Sonia want to be married by Fr. Jake before she takes her new job as a drug enforcement agent in Washington D.C.. Will this happen? Will Father Montoya be accepted?