<p>As a family clinic administrator Michele Layton has seen her share of suffering. But never anything like this. Not here in St. Cloud Minnesota. A local activist has been found murdered his body frozen like a statue and placed in a Winter Carnival ice sculpture display. Next a vicious hate crime puts a man in the ICU. And locked away in the Holy Rest mental ward a deranged man of the cloth prays for more sinners to be punished--and waits for a sign from above. These seemingly random acts lead police chief Steve Radke to Michele who could be the next pawn in a madman's chess game of life and death good versus evil.</p>