Susan Graham Lavelle

It's 1999, and as the end of the millenium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. But a few people want to skip all the work that entails, and a holy Tenktonese relic in the hands of a heretic is giving them a shortcut. But it's not quite as easily controlled as she says.

A small California farming community gets caught up in the bloody grip of big city crime and corruption.

After reaching a dead end in an investigation of seemingly unrelated local murders, police learn all of the victims share the same peculiar birthmark.