“When mathematical genius Jack Monahan and his parents are murdered, his wife, Cait, is thrust into a complex web of faith, mystery, magic, and ancient history… The author constructs a blistering story…”

– Publisher’s Weekly

The scene:  Greenwich, Connecticut

Armed assailants have cornered Jack Monahan in the kitchen of the home he shares with his wife, Cait, and his daughter, Lark.

Cait is putting their sick daughter to bed on the second floor of the house when she hears gunshots suddenly explode through the baby monitor in her pocket.  They’re coming from the floor below where Jack was locking up for the night… 

Jack launched himself backwards into the den, taking a small corner table with him noisily to the floor as he went down.  He needed them to think he’d panicked… needed Cait to hear the crash.  He was already a dead man.  They would torture him for the information they wanted, as they had his parents, then kill him, his only hope to die quickly.  But Cait and Lark must be saved.

He’d played variations of this scene a thousand times in his head since he’d committed himself to the Spear.  He knew exactly what he had to do next.  Seeing the baby monitor’s transmitter still on the desk near the couch, he raised his voice, praying to God Cait would hear him.  Why the hell had he never told her the story?  The rules said he had to pass the responsibility on before he died.

“My wife knows nothing about the Spear of Longinus!” he shouted in desperation.  “Run Cait!  They’re after the Spear!  It’s yours now!” he blurted the words  loud as he could, as he hurled his 6-foot 3-inch body directly at the man with the gun, hoping for the gift of a swift death.

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