Wrapt In Crystal
Sharon Shinn
Ace Books, 1999
ISBN:0-441-00616-7 (paperback)
The award-winning author of the Samaria Trilogy draws readers
into a world of barren beauty and mystery, where religion lures
an elusive killer...
After the breathtaking conclusion of her Samaria Trilogy in
The Alleluia Files, Sharon Shinn, inner of the William C.
Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, delivers
a compelling new novel that is at once a murder mystery, a
reflection on religion, and a bittersweet romance.
When a serial killer begins stalking the priestesses of a
planet' s two religions, Interfed Agent Cowen Drake must
immerse himself in an unfamiliar world of stark spirituality
to catch the killer. A world that will trap him between opulence
and sacrifice, duty and desire, and between two extraordinary
women-one who could become the killer's ultimate victim...
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