Once he was Father O'Meara, young American priest, personal assistant to the senior prince of the Church, intimate to the Pope. But on the night Cardinal Ricci died, he saw the unthinkable - the beautiful face peering from a nun's habit...the graceful figure fleeing the room no woman dared enter...the mark of the Succubus...

From that moment on, Joe O'Meara was a man obsessed - in flight from the Church that had declared him mad, committed to find and destroy her. From the sunlit plazas of the Vatican, across the face of Europe, he followed her orgiastic trail of death and desecration. Willing to sacrifice safety, sanity, and faith itself, he flung himself into the abyss - into the exquisite embrace of the DARK ANGEL