Psychologist Barbara Stark has enough to do – her continued recovery from a murder attempt is almost complete, but she has a complex puzzle to solve. Her ex-husband's Aunt Allie left Barb a lot of money, but she also left undefined and unresolved problems –problems that put Barb squarely in the gun-sights of another killer.
And as if that weren’t enough, religious cult leader Rev Byrd is out to teach Barb to respect him with his idea of “full blood atonement.”