Book excerpt: On the living room floor of the Winthrops’ pristine residence, blood spread quickly from two bodies: those of Apostle Magnus Winthrop and Netty Edmonds, one of his accomplices who’d defected from her loyalty toward him. It would appear that both of them had succumbed to the bullet wounds inflicted during their violent scuffle. And now the plan to destroy Magnus’ wife seems to have come to a screeching halt. But Magnus has a lair of accomplices still hellbent on proving their loyalty to him.