Moonbeams and Mistflowers Author:Charles L. Roe Angie Murelli, a small-time thug, is caught burglarizing a south Philadelphia business. A policeman?s bullet ends Angie?s career and he finds himself in a place called Starfield that may or may not be heaven, but which is certainly in the heavens. The problem for Angie is that he may not be admitted because of his past sinful life. He is give... more »n a task and sent back to earth to make amends. He must intercede in the lives of Dawn Mulky, a girl crippled in infancy by polio, her mother, Arliss, the town harlot, and her father, Floyd, a poor miner scarcely able to provide for his family. They all meet in Stoney Gap, Kentucky, a poverty-stricken area of played-out mines and forlorn hopes. Angie, reborn as the high school luminary and sports hero, Mike Angelo, has just the school year to complete his mission. He feels the time slipping away as his love for Dawn and the other people of this depressed town grows, helpless to change the fateful course of events.« less