"While awaiting the trial of Mormon fundamentalist T. Rampton Crowe on polygamy charges, Utah attorney Brigham Bybee is approached by one of Crowe's wives, who claims that Crowe castrated, dismembered, and beheaded her lover. Now faced with a capital murder case, Bybee hides Mercy in the same location where he has isolated his original witness in the polygamy trial. The next day the witness is found dead and Mercy gone..."--Amazon.com.