The Beatitudes

<p>Social workers Hannah Scrimp Dubois and Earlene PinchWashington have just started their own business Social Investigationsto solve the murders of ten foster children in New Orleans Louisiana.The New Orleans Police Department the Catholic Church and localpoliticians have sidestepped clues that point to those who hold great powerhampering their investigation./p><p>As Scrimp and Pinch discover more evidence they realize that they are dealingwith a force that crosses into the realm of the paranormal. Then they are throwninto a world much like Dante's purgatory. Soon they link the murderers to asecret organization called the White Army or La Armee Blanc centered inNew Orleans but rooted in medieval Europe and the Children's Crusades.Each clue leads to a beatitude the characteristics of those who are deemedblessed: the pure of heart the persecuted the merciful the sorrowful thepeacemakers the meek the poor in spirit and those who hunger and thirst afterjustice. By the time the eleventh child-the sacrificial child-goes missingScrimp and Pinch are determined to prevent his death.</p><p>Racing against time and the threat of an approaching hurricane these two boldno-nonsense women work together to restore hope and bring closure to a citybattered by sin.</p>