Absolution the Singularity

Pope Pious is not whom he appears to be. He is traveling from Switzerland to a remote orphanage in Brazil under an assumed name. The church hierarchy wants him gone. Someone even more important wants him in Brazil.Odessa is in love with an admiral. His ships, far off the coast of Alaska, fly no flag. Now he has asked her to go in his place--to a Brazilian orphanage they once visited. The children are dying. She takes a handwritten list of names he passes to her. "Oh, my God!" Odessa...
More Description

Pope Pious is not whom he appears to be. He is traveling from Switzerland to a remote orphanage in Brazil under an assumed name. The church hierarchy wants him gone. Someone even more important wants him in Brazil.Odessa is in love with an admiral. His ships, far off the coast of Alaska, fly no flag. Now he has asked her to go in his place--to a Brazilian orphanage they once visited. The children are dying. She takes a handwritten list of names he passes to her. "Oh, my God!" Odessa whispers, as she reads the names. "I know what you want me to do!"Natavia has finished the Christmas Eve service for eight-thousand people at her Colorado church. They've all left. She's alone. She handles the knife as she decides whether to end her life--and the fraud it has been. On the frozen pond outside her office, a girl is skating. She looks like Julie, her daughter; but Julie died eight years ago. The supernatural has invaded our world.