After escaping from a seemingly hopeless environment of poverty and religious fanaticism, Angel Adams finds herself in a Victorian mansion on Nob Hill in San Francisco and enmeshed in a sinister society known as the Serpentine Order and under the influence of its Grand Master, the evil Merl Lynn. Drugged and deceived she is coerced into murdering Alexander Thorpe, an aspiring gubernatorial candidate. She ultimately escapes the control of the Serpentine Order and sets her feet on a path of truth and goodness.