We learn that the young woman on the hospital gurney was actually pronounced clinically dead, but then resurrected four hours later.

On a late evening hike in search of clues, a couple encounter a ghostly apparition that growls feverishly at them & charges, right after their flashlights & phones mysteriously die with weird purple micro-lightning sparks (described as similar to the energy produced by a Tesla coil).  They each shoot a single round from their guns & it simply disappears.

We're told a baby girl was left on the steps of a Catholic church nearly thirty years ago.  Someone reveals that the priest at the time claimed to have been visited by an angel; he later disappears without a trace, giving the impression he was some kind of angel also perhaps...?  Inquiries were made & discovered that no one in all the world had heard of the man.

Other unexplainable, supernatural instances occur:  Driving during a brief unexpected snowstorm, two characters hit black ice in their SUV & nearly go over a mountainside when they merely blink & find themselves five miles down the road, parked at a lookout.  Because of that bizarre happening, a character explains a similar experience that happened to him in his high school years after learning the truth of a tragedy:  He runs off in anger & grief and discovers he had run for five hours, winding up on a mountain where an Indian chief meets hims.  The chief beckons him to observe a scene where the young man watches a violent & gory ritual unfold where a young girl is mutilated & eventually killed (quite descriptive) in a sacrificial way.  The Indian gestures for the young man to join them, but he refuses feeling as if he would enter a darkness were he to follow.  Next thing he knows he's back in his mother's yard & only half an hour's time has passed.

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Lots of Navajo, Ute, & American Indian lore, legends, & myths mentioned (in LOTS of detail---another overload of info here...).  Many involve spirits of some kind---good and evil---and the [full] backgrounds of each.

Much discussion of demonic possession.  Mention of the account of jesus casting out the demon(s) known as Legion from a single man.

More mention of specific cultures & their priests, goddesses, & practices.  (Something else I believed to be totally unnecessary, imo...)---> One in particular was of a Sumerian goddess whose priests were known as gala & who took female names, engaging in homosexual acts with other men... 

Visit with an old Ute medicine man who claimed he was born in 1880 (making him 140 years old...).  When Kate & Chris arrive at his secluded cabin, he greets her by name & says she's late---that "the Spirit" told him she'd be coming.  He speaks of "the Great White Father"---a title he uses in reference to the One God.  The old Ute speaks a prayer before they eat.  At one point, he says the Utes pray to the Earth, but he learned to pray "to the One who created the Earth."

In a different scene, they call in a Ghost Hunter---someone Chris had used previously when considering purchase of a house where he had learned murders had been committed.  We're told that the Hunter recorded several voices of past victims at the time.  They call in the same guy & his team to check out another house.  One member of the team is described as having strong psychic abilities.

A woman previously demonically possessed is reported to be catatonic & in a mental hospital, incapable of any kind of interaction...

A man is hospitalized for unknown reasons, though he's in a coma that the doctors can't explain---other than that he has extremely unusual brain activity.  Kate is told by a mysterious priest that Chris "will be okay."

I did not mean this review to be such a critiquing thing... As I mentioned at the start, DO NOT take my word for it!  The thorough reviews I share are meant to be taken with a grain of salt, and to shed light on content you would wish to be aware of.  SO--->That said, if you happen to pick up this book, read it for yourself! and form your own opinions.  

For me, there were just a few too many things that distracted me from the story to the point I found myself not enjoying the mystery nearly as much as I wished to.  For those reasons, I give the rating you see below.  However, I truly believe the story & the series in general has great potential!  And should the sequel make it my way, I miiiiiight be tempted to pick it up.  :]