Tony and Mike Cupelli leave Queens in search of Tony’s love Veronica Teuma who has disappeared while visiting the intentional communities of northern Missouri. Immersed in the “off the grid” life of the Discerning Wolverine commune, they uncover a plan to mass cultivate and distribute Datura, and they realize Veronica’s rescue relies on their ability to figure out which if any of the commune’s me
When Monsignor Martin Heamey is found strangled just after a debate with Tony Cupelli, a former monsignor and present professor at Smith College, Tony’s detective brother Mike seeks a possible link between this murder and the apparent suicide of a Carmelite nun in Brooklyn. The brothers uncover a growing cult of young women devoted to dark interpretations of the teachings & life of St. Teresa...