The Vortex
FBI Special Agent George Barton Parker III had encouraged his boss, Raymond Proctor, FBI Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles office, to open his mind to new ideas, new vistas — hell, anything but the same old plodding approach to investigations and, in general, his life, and for the first time Proctor agreed to do something on his next vacation.
Proctor, not one to go small, picks Sedona, home of the Sedona Spiritual Vortexes, intersections of natural electromagnetic energy and the ancestral home of the highly spiritual Hopi.
In Sedona Proctor finds far more than spiritual vortexes, and within a few weeks, he is calling Parker to rescue him from the Sedona jail and the clutches of a jealous, vengeful sheriff.
Parker responds immediately, and he soon finds himself battling an ancient spirit of a Franciscan Friar seeking revenge on the Hopi for a 400-year-old offense.
As the deviously evil friar’s spirit leaps from one body to another, deception, destruction, distrust and terror spread through the Hopi and Sedona communities. To bring an end to the enmity, hostility and violence, Parker must figure out how to capture and contain a spirit that has managed to escape a prison that had held him for 400 years. And since Parker had grown rather fond of his life, he would also like his condition to be the same as it was when he arrived in Sedona — alive.