Bless Me, for I Will Sin

Michael Dubose, tortured by recurring dreams and a hatred for his mother, is a force not to be denied. As Mardi Gras begins in the French Quarter, Duboses time has come. Driven by loathing, Michael seeks deliverance from his pain. Five women must die so he can live free. Along with his roommate Billy, Michael devises a grandiose plan to end two liveshis mother and her maidin the cathedral where he had been forced every Sunday of his youth to kneel and pay homage to a God that was just as unlovely as his mother. But three other women of pain must also dieSister Monica, the lady in black and white who had belittled and berated him because he stuttered; Olivia Pressley, the girl he had thought was his friend until she turned on him his freshman year of high school; and, Martha Cravens, a boss who considered him slow, dull, and bumblingand who was also an older, heavier version of his mother . As innocent people begin paying the price for Michaels twisted plan, the New Orleans police hope for a miracle to save the French Quarter and its visitors as semantics and subtleties ravage a killers sick mind.