Rybekkah Duff's birth was a miracle, an unwanted surprise to her hopelessly dysfunctional parents but a miracle to her grandmother. Rybekkah should never have been possible, doctors deeming her mother barren as a child after a severe case of mumps which nearly killed her. Rybekkah's grandmother always knew the girl was a miracle because of the angel she had seen leaning over Rybekkah's mother during the height of the disease.
The girl grew up mostly alone, no real friends, picked on and bullied mostly because of her name which she hates. Her parents could have called her any other derivation of the normal spelling of the name but in their clueless wisdom had chosen Rybekkah which made her stand out as an "Unsoph", an unsophisticated person, a person who came from a low social status family.
For as long as she could remember, Rybekkah had a recurring dream that she was in a vividly white room, so white she could not see the corners where the walls, ceiling and floor met. The room had no doors or windows and the only thing in it apart from her was a bed which she was either laying on or sitting on. That part of the dream never bothered her, what did was the clothing she wore, it was what nuns would wear.
Threw her life there were times when nuns would come to her rescue, they always seemed to be a part of her life, women on the fringes, always there looking out for her.
As a young adult, Rybekkah was in one of her favourite dance halls when an angel came to her, right up to her and told her God had a need of her services, God had chosen her for a task that only she could do.
From that moment on, Rybekkah's life became something she had only ever read about in fictional books. The angel plucked her out of an old aimless life and introduced her to the sisters in a convent she had never noticed before. It was where she would learn how to dispatch demons and then to embark on a journey through a portal into a world she did not know existed, not on Earth.
What God wanted from Rybekkah would see her hurt physically and mentally, she would have to fight the supernatural, people intent on killing her and then enter a place only the damned entered so she could slow the return of Satan to the surface of Earth.
Along the way, Rybekkah learns a lot about herself, about how the real world worked, about God and religion and the true meaning, about the universe and her place in it.
