Tawny Bradford is the highest rated talk show host in California, but her faith and her family are what give her life meaning, so when both desert her, so does her hope. Her husband, Pastor Luke Bradford, leads the largest protestant congregation in California. He, Father Michael McMahon, Reverend James Stephen, and Rabbi Benjamin Steinberg comprise the Four Fathers; spiritual shepherds aligned in the effort to stop President Sorrell Veasy from successfully purging God from the schools, the public square, and the United States Constitution. The President has already changed the system of dating the calendar. It will no longer be based on the birth of Jesus Christ. When Luke disappears, along with Assistant District Attorney Brenda Richards and fifty thousand dollars of his church's funds, Tawny relies on San Francisco police detectives Clive Brody and Will Harris to find them, as well as whoever is responsible for murdering young women of faith and leaving behind the message, "No Allegiance, No Mercy." As Nietzsche warned, "with the decline of Christianity, new and opposing ideas will arise, radically redefining everything from family to infanticide and the extinction of all the principles and values that guide us and give all human life dignity." One of those doing the redefining (and perhaps even the killing) is the Imam of San Francisco's largest mosque. In only a matter of days the spiritual war escalates, and the people Tawny loves are exposed, exploited, jailed and martyred for their faith.