Introducing Marti Brown, professional writer transformed into sleuth while uncovering clues about her literary agent gone missing in New York City. Leaving her home and life partner in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she embarks on a journey to New York and takes the reader along with her during the most terrifying week of her life. Along with murder and mayhem, she discovers her birth family's connection to a religion foreign to her sensibilities. Once she returns home to Albuquerque, the horror continues and her construction of both reality and spirituality is forever changed by events she could not have invented for one of her novels. Marti meets the mistress of the house of Face, and quickly becomes ensnared in a plot she has no desire to be a part of. This novel will appeal to the mystery lover, romance fan, and sage who questions traditional religious teachings.