In a small town in Ark-La-Tex Detective Jim Bonham has been assigned to a new case On the outskirts of the town a woman has been found brutalized and nailed to a cross Bonham recognizes her immediately it is Dr Deborah Gold one of the towns psychologists The questions pile up quickly How many perpetrators would it have taken to commit this atrocity Why was a Roman coin found at the foot of the body And why a murder as gruesome and cruel as crucifixion