The hymn - Graham Masterton

Celia Williams was happy, healthy and newly engaged; so why did she take her own life in the most horrific way imaginable- by burning herself to death?

Her fiance, Lloyd Denman is completely unable to come to terms with her death- mainly because she is still with him. Day and night, relentlessly, Celia is haunting him...

And in the nearby Californian desert a tragedy of wider proportions has happened: a whole busload of people has burned to death in what the police think is a gruesome suicide pact. Lloyd thinks otherwise, for he has already begun an investigation that will take him back in the past; into an age when a terrible plan was born- and supposedly died. Back to someone who helped create the horrors of Nazi Germany and who is now redefining the meaning of terror...