Death and the Magic Man

It is the Lunar New Year 2027 in San Francisco but the familiar Lion Dance ritual is disrupted by explosions. Fran Martinet, who has already had to deal with one murder in a classic San Francisco setting, finds herself challenged to learn why she was chosen to be the Black Queen in a deadly chess game that somehow reaches back to her own childhood and a predatory priest. To do so she must avoid being taken out of play by a conspiracy of White Bishops and their pawn, a charismatic evangelist dubbed the Magic Man.