California 1870, a tall stranger named Mort Peccatum meets a mendicant friar escorting a companion in holy orders that carries an ancient relic recovered from the jungles of British Honduras. He is tasked as a sentinel to guard the man and what he carries in a stained satchel to the burgeoning, vice-ridden city of San Francisco.There are many who await the arrival of the reliquary recognizing the power it contains. Among them are wealthy entrepreneurs,...