Description: Kurt's birthright is the Hauptmann dynasty, artisans with a heritage handed down from the Dark Ages. Coming to the studio as an apprentice, he will learn to make stained glass to help men see the glory of God. But the family has other, more frightening ancestral secrets to hand down. The path to God runs through darkness as well as light. And the bond of a family is blood, its own and that of its enemies. What is the strangeness in Uncle Detlef, head of the studio? Why has he descended from his cathedral roofs to steeplejack the perils of a secular world? What are his secrets? Why do the family's holy rites seem perverse? Most of all, why are men getting killed in bizarre, archaic ways here in south Florida? As Kurt gropes toward the truth, so does the tough and cynical cop Jack Skelote. What lies before them is a limbo of murdered martyrs, unblessed, unholy, and unburied.

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