A Strangely Victorious Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day! Jackson Crow is pleased that they have Mary Tiger sitting with the kids—and thanks to Adam Harrison, they have a dinner reservation at the area’s newest and most elegant restaurant.

He finds Angela reading about a depressing celebration that had occurred hundreds of years ago in Rome, before the day had become synonymous with priests named Valentine who had become martyrs but preached love, candy, flowers, and expressions of love. But she’s ready to head out. Their day has been quiet except for reports of a madman running around the city, crying out for his own love—and for more martyrs.

But they head out to dinner! And it’s beautiful! Candlelight, soft, cozy booths . . .

But leave it to the two of them.

That night, the madman will find them and when a young hostess and an Episcopalian priest and his wife are threatened, it will take more than the fact that they’re armed themselves to save everyone’s life; it will take the weapons they’ve learned through the years of history and understanding if everyone will manage to leave with their lives—