Twenty years since the events of CONSECRATED HIGHWAYS. Thirty since those that transpired in THE REVEREND'S POWDER. Seems like a long time.

But time means nothing to the Great Mother of Death. Once she chooses you, she'll have you, regardless of the passage of time.

In Baja Mexico, a bus of Christian volunteers travel toward a home for poor and disadvantaged people to perform works of mercy. On the way, the bus is stopped by a group of local bandits and militiamen. Bandits in the employ of the local drug cartel.

Soon, the volunteers find themselves pitted in gladiatorial combat for the entertainment of the cartel. Entertainment that demands blood is spilled as an offering to the Mother of Death. Among them, is seventeen-year-old Scott, who has more of his dad, former hitman turned holy man Matthew, in him than he knows.

Killing runs in the family. And the Mother of Death may have found her best recruit.

This book also includes the story DOOR TO EVER, which tells the tale of an artist who learns to make living art for the Mother of Death.