Popsicle Styx

Richard Harjo, PhD, DD, is an Oklahoma death-row chaplain whose job is
to prepare inmates to meet their maker. That’s a challenge for any minister,
especially one who has serious doubts about a supreme being. He thought
he’d never get his faith back—until he met a Choctaw murderer named
Holabi Minco, who might be a witch.

In the tradition of his people, Minco keeps a calendar made of sticks – popsicle
sticks, since they come with lunch. He writes people’s names on the sticks
with his blood, and when their day comes up, they die. Some of those people
are on the execution roster, but some aren’t.

Richard learns he may be part of Holabi’s ritual. And when Holabi’s beautiful
daughter Kinta Minco enters the picture, her other admirers—a corrupt prison
guard and a white supremacist who are stalking her—make things difficult.

With his hands full escorting killers to the execution chamber and making
love to Kinta, Harjo hardly notices he’s caught up in a complex plot to break
Holabi Minco out of prison.

Will the mystical Minco avoid execution?