Persephone Diverted

Anticipating a peaceful life after death an intrepid nun is chagrined when St. Peter refuses her entry at heavens gates. Instead he charges her with returning to earth on a special mission. But before St. Peter can supply explicit instructions Sr. Martha Louise is unexpectedly transported thirty years into the future to a post-apocalyptic totalitarian state. She finds religion outlawed and humanity tottering on the brink of extinction thanks to a mysterious despotic ruler the Illustrious Innovator venerated as a demigod. Not only must Sr. Martha Louise convince the Illustrious Innovator of the error of his ways she also must deal with revolt famine plague and myriad other catastrophes in a world rapidly descending into frenzied chaos. In a first-person account that mixes biting political satire lighthearted supernatural realism and grim noire fiction Sr. Martha Louise relates her management of her unintentionally vague divine mission.