
laire Cummings is dying of cancer when the mysterious Dr. Smith Viviee offers to save her life. Claire’s daughter Helene, a struggling TV talk show host, is wary at first, but then ecstatic with the possibility that this certain cure could save her career.
Meanwhile, on Park Avenue, distinguished physician Archibald Claiborne is brutally slain and former NYC Police Chief Robert Morgan is called in to use his celebrated intuition to solve the murder. There is only one clue – a necklace with an image of the caduceus, the familiar emblem of the healing professions, but is that all it means? And what of the small mark that forms on Claire’s hand? It resembles a hurricane symbol.
Claire’s grandson Justin is the only one concerned, as his troubling visions begin to bridge the gap between modern science and ancient Judeo-Christian prophecies.



