Alise Campbell is a 44-year old single woman who works as a title secretary in Houston, Texas. Having decided long ago that watching the news was not helpful to her personally, she has been blissfully unaware that a serial killer is on the loose in her hometown.  As the body count mounts, the news intrudes into Alise's world from several directions at once, including lucid dreams about a magical device that can solve the murders. Having had a history of "precognitive" dreams and deciding that they, too, never brought her anything but misery, Alise is initially hesitant and more than a bit disbelieving that some kind of magical device can help the police catch the killer. But she decides to give it a try. In a process similar to “psychic questing,” and combining quantum physics with metaphysics and the latest in DNA memory research, Alise grows in her own knowledge of the arcane through trial and error while others join her on her mission: To see the face of a killer in a hologram.