He was as her friends described him: Tall, handsome, powerful; and riding on a strange, huge beast. While his lance impaled her husband, she felt adoration of his dominance and strength. And she wanted him. When he ordered her submission to intercourse with him and his fellow Conquistadores, she obeyed; proud to please her new God. Nine months later she birthed a beautiful, crimson-skinned baby girl; a new bloodline race. Six centuries of refined mixings of Irish and Negro blood with that original Mestizo bloodline created a spectacular beauty: an irresistibly voluptuous sexpot, femme fatale. She is Cecilia, the Crimson Mariposa.

Genius Sheila dreams and wonders. Would exploring her repressed sexuality help her understand Danny, her first love? Meanwhile, a double homicide on a remote Colorado mountain sparks a treasure hunt involving a wealthy heiress, a clever bank lending officer, and a sex sadist. And a mysterious call was not an innocent wrong number! It transmitted a fateful message!

Four women, by chance suddenly thrown together, confront a horrific terrorist plot. They need Sheila's help, but she obsesses over her psychic quest! Did her soul once live in a porn star's body? And what is causing her obsessive attraction to the Crimson Mariposa?

Crimson Mariposa is the first book of the Resurrection Volume of Rosemary Ness Bitner's Secret Butterfly Series. It is the fifteenth book of the series.

Crimson Mariposa is about romantic love, erotic entanglements, self-discovery, adventure, trust and treachery.