The Lavinia of Roman legend is famous for her hair spontaneously bursting into flames. Emily Fisher is not going to be so lucky.

Everything is connected. The secret paths linked all the most important places in the lands of the Children of the New Revelation. And now they aren’t working well. They almost killed Emily Fisher. And the problem doesn’t end there . . . for everything is connected. And Emily Fisher has to deal with being one of “Lavinia’s heirs” in chapter 41 of Prophecies and Penalties, my weekly serial of murder and magic on a Vermont religious commune. If you’re not reading it already, you can start at the beginning.