Too Blessed to Stress

Kosik debuts with a biting satire of megachurches and online marketing. The story revolves around four members of Moral Mavens Mainframe, a volunteer social media team for Moving Word, a megachurch in Charlotte, N.C. Kristin, the office assistant, still lives at home with her parents. Camryn, the team’s unofficial leader, struggles with massive debt due to a shopping addiction. Savannah, a costar with her family on a Christian reality TV series, is desperately trying to get pregnant, while Trishy, a young single woman, has a habit of taking gifts from the Mavens’ sponsors. Together, they are helping to promote a fundraising gala for an anti-human-trafficking organization. The plot thickens when Kristin suspects their pastor has been siphoning money from the church, which may account for his 62 pairs of sneakers and rumored indoor swimming pool. Hoping to save their reputation amid a brewing scandal, they plot to reveal the truth during the gala. The first half is bogged down in discussions of content strategy and details of the women’s livestreams, but once it gets going, the narrative tackles meaty questions about the aspiring influencers’ true motives beneath their sheen of righteousness. Readers are in for a treat. Agent: Claire Friedman, InkWell Management. (Mar.)