Autumn, 1970. A twelve-year-old boy stumbles upon a hideous scene in a dust-strewn trailer: the savage murder of a woman that will remain unsolved for twenty-five years . . .
During Christmas week in 1995, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult that calls itself the Left-handed Path, led by a man known only as Cyrus. Bob Hightower, the girl's father and a small-town cop, cannot cope with the loss and so embarks on a desperate mission to find his daughter, but there are no clues to her whereabouts...except for the mutilated corpses of her mother and step-father. His only hope lies with Case Hardin, ex-cult member and ex-junkie, living in a halfway house in Hollywood. Bob has no reason, and every need, to trust her.
Their quest - he for his child, she to exorcise her demons - becomes a primal hunt-and-chase through a savage subculture of drugs and ritualistic violence. But Bob holds a final card to throw into the macabre "game". . . the twentieth enigma of the tarot . . . the angel who signals Judgement . . .
Boston Teran has written a searing debut novel - a dark, compelling thriller about personal conviction, retribution and survival.
