L.A. is plagued by a series of burnings of religious buildings: churches, synagogues, mosques. The Devil puts Stone on the case, and he believes that one of the escapees is trying to exact revenge on God by attacking His structures. Meanwhile, Stone and Detective Ashe keep crossing paths, and the romantic interest between them grows. They get so far as to start stripping off their clothes, but Ashe is put off by the tattoes on Stone's skin. Stone finally tracks down his suspect, Varner, but it turns out he is simply a mind-controlled pawn. The actually escapee is...Ashe. Ashe is actually Ashur Badaktu, a priestess to a pagan god 4,000 years ago. She killed her daughter as her religion ordained, but when God became the supreme diety, He condemned her to Hell. Ashe/Ashur is the one who led the escape, and managed to get a job as a detective with the LAPD. Now she plans to gain revenge on God Himself by destroying his works. She realized Stone was sent to track her down when she saw the tattoes, one of which had her real name. Ezekial can't quite bring himself to kill the woman he's been attracted to, and Ashe/Ashur escapes. The Devil is not happy, and Stone suspects that his "boss" may have been romantically involved with Ashur as well.