"The Church said you can't see God in Hell, but to Hance that night in a small, close room where radiators hissed away the cold, and tapestry drapes muffled the icy scourging of the world beyond the walls, Emmy Kydd was the mirror that caught God's light from afar and shone it upon him as freely as if it were her own. " _____________________________________ Priest. Professor. Musician. Vampire. Long a prisoner of the Church, John Hance is damned to eternal life drinking the blood of Christ instead of the blood of humans. An enigmatic girl becomes his student at the obscure college where he's taught for nearly seven years. She knows too much about him. Is she insane or ingenuous? Or is she a divine emissary sent to remind him that sometimes, justice is something else?