In this third volume of Pete Kennedy's Floodwood Trilogy, Professor Artemis Fletcher, artist and adventurer Ayotunde and African fine arts student Olorin travel in 1967 between New York, Mexico City, New Orleans, Rome as they mingle with the greatest female abstract impressionists of the era, face down the power of black magic, and try to prevent the theft of a priceless work of Vatican art. Ultimately a mystical transformation changes the future completely.