Why is Father Michael Shannon compelled to murder a young woman? Why is he convinced that he is destined to die at a young age from a horrible debilitating disease? What does he do in a desperate attempt to avoid it? Why does Cassidy Foster, an attorney and female graduate of West Point, need to identify the murderer? Why is Jasmine, an immigrant from Bulgaria, determined to kill Cassidy? Acknowledgements Thanks to Clark Martin for his intellectual property expertise, to computer guru Grant Wells for more than infrequently bailing me out of computer glitches and to Richard LaGarde, the inspiration for this novel. Richard's leukemia has been in remission ever since a May 5, 2016, stem cell transplant.