Hovering Presence picks up the saga of Dr. Flash Bastion, the “moral trust fund” heir whose inherited virtue once lit the world, and follows his climb from exile back toward purpose. In Flash’s absence, Dr. Bart Flaggert becomes “Number Eleven” at Harmony Heights, but the flock cannot let go of their fallen shepherd, and the church fractures under the weight of memory and unmet hope.

Beyond the sanctuary, a darker power moves. Herr Bosel and Hector Pauns drive a plan to dissolve borders into a single “One Nation,” tightening control while the world reels. Hope surfaces through Mosha Hammond’s astonishing invention, “chirp,” a sparrow-song technology born from Flash’s desert miracle that turns homes and churches into havens of peace. On Easter 2007, chirp goes live, disarming violence at the threshold and spreading like wildfire.

At home, Jill wrestles with her part in their unraveling and prays for reunion, even as her on-air plea begins stitching their story back together. Drawn by a fresh “Anthem of the Angels,” Flash returns to Harmony Heights, where Flaggert quietly restores him to the pulpit and the people find their cry: “Not on my watch.”

This second volume is a story of recovery, family, and a church learning to stand in a hovering presence that refuses to abandon its own.