"DeadRinger, Clone of God" is a science fiction thriller that addresses the question: Does a clone have a soul? If so, who owns it? Lisa de Leon is the result of a cloning experiment by her unlikely parent, a nun from the order of St. Mary in a predominantly multicultural section of East Los Angeles. Sister Beatrice cloned herself to prove that not only did a soul exist but that it also had a choice in choosing a human body, and it was its own being, governed by no other force but its own.

The Vatican, however, has other ideas. It discovers Sister Beatrice's experiment and considers it a...