Lust, Obsession, Murder, Revenge, Lust
The other circle of life fuels the journey of a man calling himself Charles Theodore. Maniacal and ageless, Theodore climbs through the ages up the Mississippi river searching for a female bloodline and a love lost.
Martha Villeré is searching through her family tree, uncovering the ghosts that lurk in the fairy tales she was told as a child. John Maguire, far from his home in the Irish countryside, is seeking bloody revenge for a murder he no longer remembers. Special Agent Reggie Augustine is closing in on a serial killer with neither face nor fingerprints.
Stu Shires, trying to write the novel of the American South, has stumbled on a story stranger than the violent fiction that keeps him up at night.