Overview

The year is 2034. A Constitutional Amendment has been ratified that lets each state define marriage within its borders. Only a handful have forbidden same-sex weddings, but Amy's home state of Louisiana is one of them. When two of her female friends find a pastor willing to challenge the ban, Private Investigator Amy and Paul brave the demonstrations raging outside the church to support their friends. But a problem arises when Amy finds the pastor dead in her office, a wicked knife still stuck in her back. Was it done by the supporters of same-sex marriage looking for a martyr, like Sunchild, or the angry Sharpie lesbians, or the difficult leader of the one-woman Advancement Trust NOLA? Or by the protesters, like the two intimidating men who attach themselves to the Partnership of African-American Clergy, or the unbalanced Friar Transom with the local archdiocese, or the men in camouflage carrying hateful signs? Working with New Orleans police Lieutenant Duke Cranston, Amy and Paul work desperately even as Hurricane Olaf bears down on the Crescent City. They tame an enforcer, they weather an assault, and they thwart an attempted car-bombing. Which suspects are telling the truth, and which ones are lying? They won't know for sure until the final knife and gun standoff in a street drenched by hurricane wind and rain.