By 4042 CE, the Hierophant and his Church have risen to political dominance with his cannibalistic army of genetically modified humans: martyrs. In an era when mankind's intergenerational cold wars against their long-lived predators seem close to running hot, the Holy Family is poised on the verge of complete planetary control. It will take a miracle to save humanity from extinction. It will also take a miracle to resurrect the wife of 331-year-old General Dominia di Mephitoli, who defects during martyr year 1997 AL in search of Lazarus, the one man rumored to bring life to the dead. With the Hierophant's Project Black Sun looming over her head, she has little choice but to believe this Lazarus is really all her new friends say he is—assuming he exists at all—and that these companions of hers are really able to help her. From the foulmouthed Japanese prostitute with a few secrets of her own to the outright sapient dog who seems to judge every move, they don't inspire a lot of confidence, but the General has to take the help she can get. After all, Dominia is no ordinary martyr. She is THE HIEROPHANT'S DAUGHTER, and her Father won't let her switch sides without a fight. Not when she still has so much to learn.

On her escape from home, General Dominia di Mephitoli has discovered many strange things, but nothing could be stranger than an interdimensional Void populated by an infamous mystic and a fictional saint of death. Nothing, perhaps, except finding the Hierophant there, too—the parent she can't escape, and the cult leader she can't shake, back to threaten her again. But she should have expected that. With the diamond of her wife's compressed cremains wrenched from her grasp and far too many friends turning out to be enemies in disguise, the Hierophant seems a better father all the time. Only memories of THE GENERAL'S BRIDE can keep her on track to Cairo, where Dominia must meet the Lady heading the infamous Red Market cabal of prostitutes and reclaim the stolen diamond. Stalked at every turn by a vile fiend in her dead wife's form, the General struggles to avoid temptation and cut a clear path to reality. Of course, as she stumbles across a strange Kingdom settled in the event horizon of a black hole, she's forced to wonder if "reality" even exists. Maybe Saint Valentinian will tell her, once he proves he's not a figment of her imagination.

Come home to this final volume of a brutal sci-fi trilogy. What does forgiveness mean to you? One year has passed since General Dominia di Mephitoli defected from the cannibalistic martyr army of her Father, the Hierophant. One year has passed since she began training an army of her own. But with one year standing between her and her escape from home, the General sees her Family's situation with new clarity. Unable to turn back time or repent to the dead, she can only help the living. A whole planet lives beneath her Father's looming shadow, and Jerusalem is under siege in an effort to claim the woman the world now believes to be a terrorist. Worst of all, her sister, the princess Lavinia, still rests beneath the Hierophant's thumb. An army can do the General no good if a siege against the family home at Old Elsinore will put her sister's life at stake; liberation can do Lavinia no good if she still thinks their Father infallible. There is only one person who can reach Europa's favorite princess—one person who can penetrate Kronborg castle and speak reason. On the bright side, with a mysterious goddess inhabiting the body of her friend, THE LADY'S CHAMPION can do anything. Anything, that is, except face her past.