Beautiful women. Brave men. Lonely machines. Terrifying aliens lost in a tunnel that connects every point in space and time. A ship that sails a universe so huge it can’t be described in human words. A lady who wants to be a mother. A true woman with a disturbing talent with an ax. All hang on courage of a hero who’d rather be in Chicago.
Most of us weave the fabric of our lives with strands selected from the seven virtues and the seven deadly sins. Jennifer Murphy found another thread. She wove her life well, and when it began to unravel, she ran, leaving a man with a knife in his chest on her kitchen floor and a cry for help on Rainbow Porter's door.
Nick Cowan lost his innocence and his wife in the Sea of Cortez. A small town in west Texas took a gamble on the future and lost everything. Paula Stafford lost her brother to Helen Daws, who never lost a thing in her life, and all of them are heading for a bloody rendezvous on the shores of the Sea of Deception.