Valor : Barbeaux Publishing : 9780998617305 : 099861730X : 14 Jan 2017 : After a childhood of nightmares and parental abandonment, Angelica Acacia has learned how to pretend to be normal and hide her strange inhuman abilities from others. But a series of events before her twenty-first birthday spurs an obsessive desire to discover the truth behind her mother's long ago disappearance. She remembers little else but the strange man that hunted them in her nightmares prompting the mother she'd called Lily to leave her on her grandmother's front porch. Giving in to her desire to understand why she was abandoned, she arrives in New Orleans just as a wave of gruesome murders terrorizes the city. In danger of dying by the hands of the sadistic killer, Angelica finds herself caught up in the world of an ancient species of man with her same weird abilities and the ticking clock of a prophecy whose time has come. For thirty years, Reximortum's mission has been to prevent the prophecy from brandin