In 1917, in Lourdes, France, three children delivered a prophecy from the Virgin Mary: two girls will experience near-simultaneous immaculate conceptions: one will give birth to a new Savior; the other will deliver the Antichrist. Is that prophecy now coming true? Ex-nun Anne Fitzgerald and Father Justin O'Carroll help investigate as Kathleen Beavier's attempt to get an abortion is stymied when she finds her doctor's corpse hanging from a hook in a South Boston clinic. Meanwhile, Father Nicholas Rosetti is sent from Rome to see Colleen Deirdre Galaher who is getting dirty looks from the nuns at her Irish Catholic boarding school. An allegorical tale of good versus evil with a cliff-hanging finale that forces even the most unbelieving to root for the faithful few.

"Patterson's usual clean, fast-paced prose, a creepy plot, and a twisted ending make this one hard to put down" (Library Journal)

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