<p>The big deal in this small town is the high school's 100^th anniversary celebration, attracting politicos, town-boosters, the hoi polloi, the wayward, and the sinister, too. Some come out of curiosity. Some for love. Others to stir trouble. And one to settle old scores.</p><p>All teem about the local baseball hero, state champion, and one-time teacher/coach, Finn Pyykonen, in his effort to right the grievous wrong visited on a junior catcher, unjustly imprisoned for a heinous crime a quarter century before.</p><p><em>The Advent of Elizabeth</em> tells the story of righteousness, of love's longing, of mischief of the malicious kind, and the winding ways of the human heart. </p><p>Satire, angst, ego, and surprise draw the reader through the three-day reunion-fete and lives touched by secret. In this burg, it turns out, everyone has something to confess. </p><p><br></p>