boston (ma)

"In Boston and an ocean away, in Ireland, two young women--both virgins--find themselves pregnant. Around the world, epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse threaten major cities. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering, and former nun turned P.I. Anne Fitzgerald investigates the immaculate conceptions to discover the truth--and to save the young women, and possibly herself."--back cover.

Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate two immaculate conceptions as terrifying forces of light and darkness gather.

The impact of a grandmother's diary on a modern woman. The diary is that of Augusta Hillyard, who was 40 when she began writing it at the turn of the century. The reader is Zoe Hillyard, 40, of Los Angeles, returned to her family's mansion in Boston for the duration of a film shoot.