A story inspired by true events in the lives of the author's parents.

What Eryk Masaryk doesn't know, is that his desire to go West unleashes powers from out of this world. His plan of escaping through the Iron Curtain during the height of the Cold War entangles him and his new bride, Jasha Kern, in a sinister plot by the fallen angels, called Nephilim. When the age-old volcano erupts, Mr. Montegue marshals the forces of the Nephilim to acquire the secret of the Sangue di Christo wine grape grown only on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Will Fritz and Lucia, Eryk's closest friends and owners of the di Costanza orchard estate, succeed in getting Eryk and Jasha across the border and free of the deadly clutches of the Nephilim? And how far will the forces of history, myth and the church conspire against Eryk's pursuit of a new life in a new land?