What she has, science will tell you, is impossible. What she does, religion will refute. Who she is, Tristan Elizabeth Badger will deny. 

Tristan came to Carmel Valley, California, to get away from the psychiatrists and the military think tanks in order to be...ordinary. From the time she was a child, her mind refused to act like other children. 

As a young deputy with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Department, she wanted nothing more than to live in peace and never again deal with those who visited unannounced. But, fate has a way of dragging us where we are needed. 

A killer wants revenge. The one he hates the most will have to suffer the greatest iniquities. For practice, others like her will be used in torturous practice for him to gain the finest skills necessary to sustain her suffering for as long as possible. Each time he fails, he stuffs the remains inside an old refrigerator and disposes of the bodies where the odds of their discovery are as remote as the locations he chooses. 

In spite of her desires, the ghosts of her past will come and lead her where her dreams have already been painted. She will traverse the land of the Esselen Tribes. She will enter their sacred caverns. She will learn that in order to look to the future, she must first explore and then conquer the past. In time, the ghosts will lead her home. With their guidance, she will learn that all things are sacred. Together, they will finally lock...The Devil’s Door.