The Night of the Scorpion

Detective Valerie Von Danner is a police detective working in the sex crimes unit of a police department in a lovely city along the California coast. She finds herself swinging on a pendulum between the two extremes of caring for her autistic son Justice, and trying to keep the city clean of criminals. The stress from her job and caring for a special needs son takes its toll, as she wears the masquerade of a high functioning alcoholic. She contemplates changing her career, until the heartbreaking rape and subsequent suicide of a young college girl makes her decision. From that moment the true investigation begins in her heart, as she realizes her raison detre-to rid the world of injustice and rape. Meet supernatural sleuth Marvella Mellows, a psychic on Section 8, who uses her gift to to help Von Danner stop a serial rapist with supernatural powers. Trees cry resinous tears of blood, and the ocean waves turn scarlet, as the city responds to the evil presence permeating its parameters.