When rapper Terrico James claimed to be "mightier than Jesus," nobody took him seriously...until someone did. Terrico's dead body ends up nailed to a cross and Chicago Detective Ryan Doherty is on the case. Was it a fringe religious sect making a statement? Or Terrico's prot g , Mandy Ross, a petulant pop star who sheds hearts like glitter in her path? With the help of his partner, Matt Di Santo, and the spirit of his dead partner, Jon, Ryan fights his way through cultural divides to find the murderer. Catharine Lulling is ready to venture outside of her estate for her first real date with Ryan. But even her special abili-ties can't save her when she reveals a secret she's been hiding from him-one that could destroy their relationship for good.