Father Emilio Sandoz, the only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, has barely had time to recover before the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing another mission to Alpha Centauri.

Drew's friendship with Skitz and Hector is tested as he becomes more aware of the personal lives of the priests at his Boston Catholic school and deals with the pending expulsion of one friend and the possible abuse of another.

Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley incite the malice of a killer when they set out to learn the truth about a skeleton found on the Wind River Reservation which could be that of Liz Plenty Horses, a woman who disappeared in 1973 after being accused of being an informant for the FBI in their case against members of the American Indian Movement.

In the year 2060, Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of Father Miguel Flores and uncovers shocking secrets about the man's past that suggest the beloved priest is not the man his parishioners thought.