Sometimes we become so absolutely possessed by the past that only divine intervention can free us.

Library Angel tells the story of two college students haunted by oppressive memories of tyrannical mothers; Julia, blessed with a great mind, responds by becoming a reclusive overachiever; Jimmy, challenged with fetal alcohol syndrome, becomes a serial killer. When fate links them through a shared fixation for a library book that harbors damning evidence, Julia embarks on a perilous, unconscious quest for freedom from her past, and Jimmy goes hunting--for Julia.

Jake Preston, successful New York photographer, had spent his life searching for something more, a magic he could never quite perceive-yet he always hid behind his camera, always let the lens see for him. Like so many of us, he hungered for a revelation, an epiphany, but was terrified at the prospect of finding one . . . until he returned home to discover his lover's body, dead on his blood-spattered bathroom floor, and on a mirror, a Cajun French message scrawled in fresh blood, the words merging with his reflection like sordid war paint. Even though he cannot translate the scarlet message,...